He had a high strike rate for the All Blacks, scoring 25 tries in his first 20 tests, and breaking the All Blacks single-season record for test tries previously shared by Jonah Lomu and Christian Cullen—his 17 test tries scored in 2003 equals the world record held by Daisuke Ohata of Japan.
On May 14, 2006 Daisuke Ohata scored the most tries in a test match at Hanazono with a hat trick for Japan against Georgia.
Daisuke Matsuzaka | Daisuke Jigen | Daisuke Nakamura | Daisuke Asakura | Daisuke Sekimoto | Daisuke Ryu | Daisuke Ohata | Daisuke Enomoto | Koichi Ohata | Daisuke Yano | Daisuke Yamai | Daisuke Nakata | Daisuke Miura | Daisuke Matsui | Daisuke Katō | Daisuke Ichikawa | Daisuke Harada | Daisuke Gōri | Daisuke Ban |