The All Blacks have suffered a late setback ahead of the second Bledisloe Cup test against Australia tonight at Accor Stadium in Sydney.<\/p>\n
Second-Five Jordie Barrett will miss the game, withdrawn with a tight calf muscle, after sitting out training yesterday.<\/p>\n
Barrett was due to team up again with Quinn Tupaea in the midfield, his 87th test. The youngest Barrett brother wasn\u2019t seen at yesterday\u2019s captain\u2019s run at an inner-city Sydney high school.<\/p>\n
Barrett\u2019s been in top form for the All Blacks this year, starring in the South African series and delivering a man of the match performance last week in the 50-19 win over the Wallabies at Eden Park.<\/p>\n
Highlanders midfielder Timoci Tavatavanawai replaces Barrett in the 12 jersey, making just his third test appearance. Canterbury utility back Chay Fihaki now comes onto the bench, set for a test debut.<\/p>\n
The test match kicks off at 6pm New Zealand time, 4pm local time, with better conditions today in Sydney after a rain-affected week leading into the game.<\/p>\n
All Blacks Matchday 23 v Wallabies (Test caps in brackets):<\/p>\n
1. George Bower (30)<\/p>\n
2. Codie Taylor (113) – Captain<\/p>\n
3. Fletcher Newell (42)<\/p>\n
4. Scott Barrett (90)<\/p>\n
5. Fabian Holland (15)<\/p>\n
6. Tupou Vaa\u2019i (52)<\/p>\n
7. Peter Lakai (15)<\/p>\n
8. Wallace Sititi (24)<\/p>\n
9. Cam Roigard (25)<\/p>\n
10. Damian McKenzie (82)<\/p>\n
11. Josh Moorby (6)<\/p>\n
12. Timoci Tavatavanawai (2)<\/p>\n
13. Quinn Tupaea (30)<\/p>\n
14. Will Jordan (62)<\/p>\n
15. Beauden Barrett (146)<\/p>\n
Reserves:<\/p>\n
16. Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho (45)<\/p>\n
17. Xavier Numia (5)<\/p>\n
18. Pasilio Tosi (18)<\/p>\n
19. Shannon Frizell (34)<\/p>\n
20. Du\u2019Plessis Kirifi (8)<\/p>\n
21. Cortez Ratima (24)<\/p>\n
22. Chay Fihaki (0)<\/p>\n
23. Rieko Ioane (90)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks have suffered a late setback ahead of the second Bledisloe Cup test against Australia tonight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[789,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-633084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-blacks","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633084","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=633084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}