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Tuesday, 20 August 2019
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson and senior pacer Trent Boult have been rested for the T20 leg of the ongoing Sri Lanka tour. In Williamson's absence, Tim Southee will...
Monday, 19 August 2019
France strolled to a comfortable 32-3 win over Scotland in their Rugby World Cup warm-up match at Allianz Riviera on Saturday.
Les Bleus scored five tries in total as Alivereti Raka, Maxime Medard (2),...
Monday, 19 August 2019
Dimuth Karunaratne played a big part in preserving his perfect record as Test captain as Sri Lanka brought up their third consecutive win since he took over, brushing New Zealand aside with a six-wicket...
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Crusaders wings George Bridge and Sevu Reece have been handed a chance to impress after being named in the All Blacks XV for their Bledisloe Cup encounter against Australia.
Bridge and Reece come in for...
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Ross Taylor's counter-punching innings kept New Zealand alive at the end of a strange day for the visitors, who seemed in control for the most part, except the periods immediately preceding the breaks....
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Wales have announced that fly-half Gareth Anscombe will miss the upcoming World Cup with an anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered against England on Sunday.
The pivot sustained a knee injury late...
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Some teams are chartable. They are open to analysis. The spreadsheets make sense. The planning leads somewhere. Gains are built upon. Weaknesses are minimised. They may retain the capacity to surprise,...
Monday, 12 August 2019
The Wallabies produced their best display, arguably since the last World Cup, to claim a rare Bledisloe Cup victory over the All Blacks following a 47-26 triumph in Perth on Saturday.
New Zealand did...
Monday, 12 August 2019
Six matches, five innings, two fifties. Average of 42.00, strike rate of 96.33. Not a bad start, you'd think, to life as an ODI batsman.
And yet, Shreyas Iyer didn't play another 50-over game...
Tuesday, 06 August 2019
All Blacks hooker Dane Coles is in no doubt the team’s focus will be fully applied to Saturday’s Bledisoe Cup Test with Australia in Perth.
Coles said looking at the first two games of the...
Tuesday, 06 August 2019
When the end came, it came painfully and quickly. God only knows the collateral damage. What we saw was the crumbling face of an England team that had the match in its hands after three...
Monday, 05 August 2019
Player background
John James Patrick Kirwan was born on 16 December 1964 in Auckland and is regarded as one of the great New Zealand wings. The back three player made his club debut in 1983 and played...
Monday, 05 August 2019
India sealed the T20I series in Lauderhill to throw open the possibility of experimenting when the two sides meet in the third and final match in Guyana on Tuesday. Unlike Saturday where both sides...
Friday, 02 August 2019
South Africa are Rugby World Cup contenders and their opening match against the All Blacks won’t matter when the tournament reaches its conclusion.
That’s the view of 2007 World Cup-winning...
Friday, 02 August 2019
In the afterglow of his stupendous 144 on the opening day of the Ashes series, Steven Smith has admitted there were times during his 12-month ban for the Newlands ball-tampering scandal where...
Thursday, 01 August 2019
The All Blacks have named a 34-man squad to face the Wallabies in their next two Tests, with five players that were part of the initial group missing out.
Shannon Frizell was the surprise omission after...
Thursday, 01 August 2019
Sri Lanka cantered to a 122-run win in the third and final ODI of their series against Bangladesh to complete a 3-0 whitewash. After posting an imposing 294 for 8, their second-string bowling attack ran...
Monday, 29 July 2019
Australia fly-half Christian Lealiifano admits that playing for his country again is “an added bonus” after he returned against Argentina.
Saturday’s match in Brisbane was the Brumbies...
Monday, 29 July 2019
Sri Lanka made an auspicious start to life after the 2019 World Cup, clinching the ODI series against Bangladesh with one game to spare. They won the second ODI by seven wickets after their bowlers put...
Friday, 26 July 2019
The short side returns to Planet Rugby as we study the major talking points ahead of this week’s second round of the Rugby Championship.
New Zealand v South Africa
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