CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: The crowd at Eden Park listen to Mils Muliaina delivering a speech to mark his 100th All Blacks test after their quarterfinal defeat of Argentina.

Sky TV say their decision to cut away from Mils Muliaina's speech at the end of last night's All Blacks-Argentina Rugby World Cup quarterfinal was made to fulfil their obligations as host broadcaster.

Muliaina was presented with a cap and was about to make a speech to the Eden Park crowd in the wake of his 100th test match for New Zealand, won 33-10 by the hosts, when Sky cut away.

Disgruntled fans this morning inundated Stuff.co.nz with complaints, all of which were critical of Sky for not showing the speech by who one commenter, Alan, described as ''a great servant of New Zealand rugby''.

Iain McGregor/Fairfax PROUD MOMENT: Rugby veteran Jock Hobbs presented All Blacks fullback Mils Muliaina his 100th cap.

Fans were also fuming on the All Blacks' official website, while All Blacks loose forward Liam Messam, a Chiefs' teammate of Muliaina but not a member of the World Cup squad, took to Twitter to voice his anger.

''Wat the f*#* Sky,'' he tweeted. ''the man achieves a massive milestone and u don't even show it(.) please don't tell me it's a IRB (International Rugby Board) rule.''

And yes, a Facebook page has already been set up, titled 'Give Mils the credit he deserves; broadcast his 100th test cap presentation'.

Sky TV head of corporate communications Kirsty Way said the broadcaster had other obligations which forced them to cut away from the speech.

''Unfortunately we had other filming obligations as part of our host broadcast obligations for post-match interviews,'' she said this morning.

''We were not able to show Mils' speech at that time. The post-match interviews were to take place at the same time and that's what we were set up to do.''

Muliaina became the second All Black reach the 100-test mark, following closely in the footsteps on captain Richie McCaw who achieved the milestone in the pool match against France in Auckland last month.

There is every chance he will finish at 100, with Israel Dagg likely to return from injury to start at fullback in the semifinal against Australia at Eden Park on Sunday and Muliaina himself sustaining an injury last night.

According to All Blacks coach Graham Henry, Muliaina's shoulder injury is ''pretty serious''.