Follow all the test rugby action as the All Blacks take on Italy in front of a sold-out crowd in Wellington.<\/p>\n
Follow all the live action below:<\/p>\n
The All Blacks have made five changes to the starting XV and six changes to the reserves.<\/p>\n
Coach Dave Rennie said he and his fellow selectors, Neil Barnes and Sir Graham Henry, have sought to balance continuity with opportunity in selecting the side.<\/p>\n
“There are a number of players and combinations who we felt deserved and would benefit from a second successive run, and other players who have earned the right to get their opportunity.”<\/p>\n
Rennie said they won’t be taking Italy lightly, despite the fact the Italians have never beaten the All Blacks.<\/p>\n
All Blacks match-day 23 (Test caps in brackets; *denotes debutant)<\/p>\n
8. Ardie Savea (107) (Captain)<\/p>\n
15.\u202fDamian McKenzie (75)<\/p>\n
16. Samisoni Taukei’aho (43)<\/p>\n
22. Anton Lienert-Brown (88)<\/p>\n
Unavailable due to injury: Fehi Fineanganofo (shoulder strain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the test rugby action as the All Blacks take on Italy in front of a sold-out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-520498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}