Keven Mealamu News
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Owen Farrell returns to start at fly-half for the England rugby team in this weekend’s Test against world champion New Zealand.
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New Zealand named the following team to play England in the rugby Test on Saturday, Dec. 1 at London’s Twickenham Stadium:
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No. 8 Kieran Read will captain New Zealand’s top-ranked rugby team for the first time against Italy in two days as the All Blacks made 14 starting changes.
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New Zealand hooker Keven Mealamu will become the third All Black to play 100 Tests in this weekend’s Bledisloe Cup rugby finale against Australia, which had to make its second injury-enforced change for the match.
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New Zealand rugby selectors named the following 32-man squad for the All Blacks tour to Europe starting next month:
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New Zealand made four changes to face South Africa in their Rugby Championship match in Dunedin this weekend, including dropping scrum-half Aaron Smith for a disciplinary breach.
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New Zealand made two starting changes for its final Rugby Championship match against South Africa, picking Hosea Gear on the left wing in place of Julian Savea and replacing Luke Romano with Brodie Retallick at lock.
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New Zealand made 11 changes for this weekend’s Tri-Nations rugby decider against Australia, including picking Piri Weepu at scrum-half and Sam Whitelock at lock.
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New Zealand rugby selectors rested nine senior players including captain Richie McCaw and playmaker Dan Carter for next week’s Tri-Nations match in South Africa.
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(The following press release from the New Zealand Rugby Union was received by e-mail. The sender verified the statement.) All Blacks first five-eighth Daniel Carter has been withdrawn from the team to play Argentina in the Investec Rugby Championship match at Westpac Stadium, Wellington, this weekend, with a calf strain. All Blacks Head Coach Steve Hansen said Carter had been carrying a tight left calf this week but had been hopeful of playing. "However, at training this morning it was apparent that he would not be able to play so we have done the sensible thing and withdrawn him from the Test match." Aaron Cruden will now start the Test in the ten jersey, with Beauden Barrett, who made his Test debut against Ireland this year, called onto the All Blacks bench. The revised team to play Argentina is now as follows: (with Test caps in brackets. * denotes new cap) Starting XV: 1. Tony Woodcock (87) 2. Keven Mealamu (95)
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