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PARIS – Eddie Jones has returned fire with fire against French counterpart Fabien Galthie, naming a strong Wallabies outfit for Sunday’s (Monday, 1:45am AEST)…

International rugby in the southern hemisphere is now finished for 2023, with all our teams completing the first stage of their Rugby World Cup…

"Don’t you do it!" How many of us were thinking that, no screaming it, as Nic White went to box kick the ball away…

The All Blacks will play two Tests on home turf this year.

New Zealand's veteran lock Sam Whitelock was on Tuesday ruled out of the second Test against Ireland after reporting delayed concussion from the first Test victory.

· ALLBLACKS.COM · GETTY IMAGES In the wake of their performance against the All Blacks in Dunedin, Fiji demonstrated their improvement in the last few years, and All Blacks halfback Brad Weber said he wouldnt mind playing a team of their quality every year. Whether that was in the Rugby Championship was above his pay grade, he said, but with so many players involved in European rugby and some of the best players in their clubs, they were a quality t...

Fawad Alam celebrates his 100 against New Zealand in the first Test at the Bay Oval. He pulls Wagner’s short ball to the square leg boundary to reach his second Test century and immediately looks up heavenwards — whispers a prayer of thanks to the Almighty and takes off his helmet. Then Rizwan, his batting partner, hugs him. It was one of the most emotional hugs seen on a cricket ground, perhaps, barring the Imran-Miandad hug at the MCG after winning the World Cup in 1992. But the hug at th...

Fawad Alam. — AFP/File IT is seldom that anyone has to tolerate so much bitterness and anguish that Fawad Alam had to endure when he was unceremoniously thrown out of Pakistan Test side as long ago as November 2009 in New Zealand and since his return to the fold during the England tour this year, the left-hander with the most ungainly batting stance at the crease has literally lived on a knife’s edge. But who cares about how one approaches his batting rituals and how he stands when facing ...