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  •   Home > News > Sports > Rugby

    Quick Sports Summary

    Quick Sports Summary


    After starting the past three games at centre, the All Black will wear the 15 jersey in Saturday's Super Rugby derby against the Blues in Wellington, with Wes Goosen earning his first start in the 13 jersey.

    Coach Chris Boyd says while Barrett likes playing in the midfield, the best contribution he can make to the team is at the back



    Meanwhile, test players Beauden Barrett, Vaea Fifita and captain Brad Shields return to the starting XV along with prop Ben May and number eight Blade Thomson



    The Chiefs have rested Anton Lienert-Brown for this weekend's Super Rugby match against the Brumbies in Hamilton.

    The All Blacks midfielder has featured in all bar one of the Chiefs' past 14 games and is replaced by Sean Wainui, who partners Charlie Ngatai in the midfield.

    Elsewhere, All Blacks hooker Nathan Harris returns from paternity leave to start, with Shaun Stevenson named on the left wing in the only other change to the starting XV



    Women's top seed Simona Halep will continue the defence of her title at Wimbledon tonight.

    The Romanian cruised through her opening round match in straight sets, but expects a tougher test against China's Zheng Saisai



    Former men's champion Rafael Nadal faces Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin, while third seed Marin Cilic will continue his suspended match against Guido Pella.

    Kiwis Marcus Daniell, Artem Sitak, Michael Venus and Erin Routliffe all have their respective first round doubles matches



    Basketball Australia and their Filipino counterparts have released a joint statement over their world cup qualifier brawl.

    The two organisations say they deeply regret the events, and apologise for them as the actions have no place on any basketball court.

    They say they fully accept responsibility and are collaborating in the ongoing proceedings to investigate the incident and prevent something like that from happening again

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