Nations Championship: All Test teams and kick off times
· The South African
There is plenty of high quality Test rugby to look forward to this weekend, which sees the action kick off when the All Blacks tackle Italy early on Saturday morning (SA time).
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While New Zealand will be clear favourites in that clash, it’s tricky to pick a winner in the subsequent battle between Australia and France, and then of course another headline fixture is the clash between the Springboks and Scotland (kick off at 17:40).
After this weekend, there will be one more round of the newly-formed Nations Championship in July, before the cross-hemisphere fixtures resume at the end of the year.
Nations Championship Test kick off times for this Saturday
MatchesKick off time (SA time)VenueNew Zealand vs. Italy07:10Sky Stadium, WellingonAustralia vs. France09:40Suncorp Stadium, BrisbaneJapan vs. Ireland12:10McDonald Jones Stadium, NewcastleFiji vs. England15:10Hill Dickinson Stadium, LiverpoolSouth Africa vs. Scotland17:40Loftus Versfeld, PretoriaArgentina vs. Wales21:10Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San JuanTEAM SHEETS
All Blacks v Italy
ALL BLACKS – 15 Damian McKenzie, 14 Will Jordan, 13 Billy Proctor, 12 Jordie Barrett, 11 Leroy Carter, 10 Ruben Love, 9 Cam Roigard, 8 Ardie Savea (c), 7 Luke Jacobson, 6 Wallace Sititi, 5 Tupou Vaa’i, 4 Sam Darry, 3 Tyrel Lomax, 2 Codie Taylor, 1 Ethan de Groot.
Subs: 16 Samisoni Taukei’aho, 17 George Bower, 18 Pasilio Tosi, 19 Josh Lord, 20 Anton Segner, 21 Cortez Ratima, 22 Anton Lienert-Brown, 23 Josh Moorby.
ITALY – TBC
Wallabies v France
WALLABIES – 15 Tom Wright, 14 Max Jorgensen, 13 Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, 12 Len Ikitau, 11 Dylan Pietsch, 10 Declan Meredith, 9 Ryan Lonergan, 8 Harry Wilson (c), 7 Fraser McReight, 6 Rob Valetini, 5 Jeremy Williams, 4 Josh Canham, 3 Allan Alaalatoa, 2 Josh Nasser, 1 Angus Bell.
Subs: 16 Brandon Paenga-Amosa, 17 James Slipper, 18 Taniela Tupou, 19 Lachlan Shaw, 20 Nick Champion de Crespigny, 21 Tate McDermott, 22 Jock Campbell, 23 Filipo Daugunu.
FRANCE – TBC
Japan v Ireland
JAPAN – 15 Takuro Matsunaga, 14 Kazuma Ueda, 13 Dylan Riley, 12 Yuya Hirose, 11 Taira Main, 10 Ryunosuke Ito, 9 Naoto Saito, 8 Jack Cornelsen, 7 Kanji Shimokawa, 6 Ben Gunter, 5 Warner Dearns (c), 4 Harry Hockings, 3 Shuhei Takeuchi, 2 Mamoru Harada, 1 Takato Okabe.
Subs: 16 Hayate Era, 17 Sojiro Otuska, 18 Keijiro Tamefusa, 19 Michael Stolberg, 20 Michael Leitch, 21 Tiennan Costley, 22 Itsuki Kamimura, 23 Sam Greene.
IRELAND – TBC
Fiji v England
FIJI – TBC
ENGLAND – TBC
Springboks v Scotland
SPRINGBOKS – 15 Aphelele Fassi, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian Willemse, 11 Canan Moodie, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit (c), 6 Paul de Villiers, 5 Ruan Nortjé, 4 Cobus Wiese, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Johan Grobbelaar, 1 Boan Venter.
Subs: 16 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 17 Ntuthuko Mchunu, 18 Zach Porthen, 19 Ben-Jason Dixon, 20 Vincent Tshituka, 21 Elrigh Louw, 22 Grant Williams, 23 Quan Horn.
SCOTLAND – TBC
Argentina v Wales
ARGENTINA – TBC
WALES – TBC