All Black-led Babas to face Wallabies

Colin Slade is among four unwanted All Blacks added to the Barbarians team to play the Wallabies at Twickenham.

Unwanted All Blacks Colin Slade, Steven Luatua, Dominic Bird and Matt Todd have been included in the Barbarians team to face Australia at Twickenham next week.

Coach Sir John Kirwan lifted the number of New Zealand players to 11 in his final squad of 27 for the international on November 1, the first stop of the Wallabies' November tour of Europe.

The Barbarians also play a subsequent midweek game against Leicester to celebrate the English club's 125th anniversary.

There are eight South Africans in the squad as well as former Wallabies winger Nick Cummins.

Seven of the New Zealanders have played Tests, including five-eighth Slade, who slotted the match-winning conversion for the All Blacks in their 29-28 win over Australia in Sydney on Saturday.

Slade, flanker Luatua and lock Bird were among the notable omissions from the All Blacks squad named to tour the USA and Great Britain in November.

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen also singled out flanker Matt Todd as unfortunate not to make the cut.

The other All Blacks selected by Kirwan are flanker Adam Thomson and two backs from his Blues Super Rugby team - Frank Halai and Francis Saili.

Barbarians squad:

Backs: Tim Nanai-Williams (NZ), Joaquin Tuculet (Argentina), Patrick Osborne (NZ), Frank Halai (NZ), Nick Cummins (Australia), Juan de Jongh (South Africa), Francis Saili (NZ), Colin Slade (NZ), Marnitz Boshoff (South Africa), Tomas Cubelli (Argentina), Sarel Pretorius (South Africa), Fumiaki Tanaka (Japan)

Forwards: Adam Thomson (NZ), Matt Todd (NZ), Heinrich Brussow (South Africa), Jacques Botes (South Africa), Steven Luatua (NZ), Michael Rhodes (South Africa), Al Kellock (Scotland), Dominic Bird (NZ), Matias Alemanno (Argentina), Coenie Oosthuizen (South Africa), Matt Stevens (England), Thomas Du Toit (South Africa), Angus Ta'avao (NZ), James Parsons (NZ), Mahonri Schwalger (Samoa)


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