Former All Black prop Aidan Ross has been called up by Australia as they prepare for Saturday’s third Test against the British and Irish Lions in Sydney.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old, who played for New Zealand in two Test defeats by Ireland in 2022, was born in Australia before moving across the Tasman as a child.<\/p>\n
Under World Rugby’s ‘birthright’ rules, players can represent a second nation after a three-year stand-down period if they, a parent or a grandparent were born in that second nation.<\/p>\n
Ross, who was part of the Chiefs team that lost the Super Rugby final last month, has since moved to the Queensland Reds. <\/p>\n
He has already played the Lions twice on their tour, turning out for the Reds and an invitational Australia and New Zealand side.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere wing Harry Potter has been ruled out of the tour finale after straining his hamstring in Australia’s second Test defeat in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All Black prop Aidan Ross has been called up by Australia as they prepare for Saturday’s third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-27339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}