{"id":565000,"date":"2026-08-10T20:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/565000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:10:12","slug":"all-blacks-v-sharks-kickoff-times-how-to-watch-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/565000\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks v Sharks: Kickoff times, how to watch \u2013 all you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The All Blacks haven\u2019t played the Sharks in their modern form, but they did come away with positive results against their predecessor Natal.<\/p>\n

New Zealand have never lost a game to the provincial side, but drew their 1960 fixture 6-6.<\/p>\n

All Blacks v Natal history<\/p>\n

Played \u2013 6<\/p>\n

All Blacks won \u2013 5<\/p>\n

Natal won \u2013 0<\/p>\n

Draws \u2013 1<\/p>\n

All Blacks points scored \u2013 159<\/p>\n

Natal points scored \u2013 55<\/p>\n

All Blacks v Natal all meetings<\/p>\n

1992 – All Blacks 43 Natal 25, Durban<\/p>\n

1976 \u2013 All Blacks 42 Natal 13, Durban<\/p>\n

1970 \u2013 All Blacks 29 Natal 8, Durban<\/p>\n

1960 \u2013 All Blacks 6 Natal 6, Durban<\/p>\n

1949 \u2013 All Blacks 8 Natal 0, Durban<\/p>\n

1928 \u2013 All Blacks 31 Natal 3, Pietermaritzburg<\/p>\n

All Blacks v Sharks line-ups<\/p>\n

All Blacks: 1. Ethan de Groot, 2. Asafo Aumua, 3. Fletcher Newell, 4. Josh Lord, 5. Sam Darry, 6. Tupou Vaa\u2019i, 7. Luke Jacobson (c), 8. Wallace Sititi 9. Kyle Preston, 10.\u202fRuben Love, 11. Caleb Clarke, 12. Jordie Barrett, 13.\u202fQuinn Tupaea, 14. Fehi Fineanganofo, 15. Damian McKenzie<\/p>\n

Bench: 16. Bradley Slater, 17. Ollie Norris, 18. Pasilio Tosi, 19. Ethan Blackadder, 20. Semisi Ta\u2019eiloa, 21. Cam Roigard, 22. Timoci Tavatavanawai, 23. Emoni Narawa<\/p>\n

Sharks: 1. Nemo Roelofse, 2. Eduan Swart, 3. Vincent Koch, 4. Hendre Stassen, 5. Emile van Heerden, 6. Phepsi Buthelezi, 7. Manu Tshituka, 8. Nick Hatton (c), 9. Bradley Davids, 10. Vusi Moyo, 11. Litelihle Bester, 12. Murray Koster, 13. Jurenzo Julius, 14. Donovan Don, 15. Zekhethelo Siyaya<\/p>\n

Bench: 16. Liam van Wyk, 17. Rambo Kubekha, 18. Simphiwe Ngobese, 19. Vincent Tshituka, 20. Matt Romao, 21. Ivan van Zyl, 22. Luan Giliomee, 23. Ma\u2019a Nonu<\/p>\n

Form guide (past five matches)<\/p>\n

All Blacks:<\/p>\n

Beat Stormers 38-21<\/a><\/p>\n

Beat Ireland 40-21<\/a><\/p>\n

Beat Italy 47-17<\/a><\/p>\n

Beat France 34-32<\/a><\/p>\n

Beat Wales 52-26<\/a><\/p>\n

Sharks:<\/p>\n

Beat Boland Kavaliers 19-12<\/p>\n

Lost to Stormers 36-28<\/p>\n

Lost to Cheetahs 43-21<\/p>\n

Beat Pumas 26-24<\/p>\n

Beat Zebre 54-19<\/p>\n

All Blacks v Sharks referee<\/p>\n

Englishman Matthew Carley will take charge of this tour fixture and could give an insight in to how he might referee the first test of the series on August 23. The All Blacks have struggled against South Africa when Carley has the whistle, losing all three times he\u2019s refereed their matches against the Springboks.<\/p>\n

All Blacks v Sharks TAB odds<\/p>\n

All Blacks $1.01, Sharks $15.00<\/p>\n

All Blacks 1-12 $7.50<\/p>\n

All Blacks 13+ $1.10<\/p>\n

Draw $61<\/p>\n

Sharks 1-12 $18.00<\/p>\n

Sharks +13 $31.00<\/p>\n

All Blacks v Sharks \u2013 how to follow the action<\/p>\n

For live commentary of the All Blacks\u2019 tour game against Sharks, join Elliott Smith on Newstalk ZB and iHeartRadio.<\/p>\n

The Alternative Commentary Collective will also be providing commentary on their iHeartRadio stream.<\/p>\n

You can watch the game on Sky Sport 1 and it will be livestreaming on Sky Sport Now.<\/p>\n

You can also find live updates at nzherald.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen to Elliott Smith\u2019s live commentary on Newstalk ZB Sport and iHeartRadio, or join the Alternative Commentary Collective on iHeartRadio and Radio Hauraki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks haven\u2019t played the Sharks in their modern form, but they did come away with positive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275732,5263,8136,221,34434,6036,5971,111,43,139,69,14861,14005,61,16670,1680,197],"class_list":["post-565000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-5am","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-how","tag-kickoff","tag-know","tag-need","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sharks","tag-times","tag-to","tag-watch","tag-wednesday","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565000","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=565000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}