This weekend sees two important Rugby Union games for the home nations sides, England will be playing the New Zealand All Blacks at Twickenham as part of the Investec Internationals and over in Declan Kidney’s Ireland team will be taking on world champions South Africa.
England will certainly not be relishing the game against the All Blacks who are favoured to win this opening fixture of the Investec International Challenge. They will have to keep down Sonny Bill Williams who will be making his debut for the All Blacks but is believed to be more of a threat than Jonah Lomu was. Williams comes into the squad as one of the four changes to the team that built Australia last weekend.
Ireland welcome back captain Brian O’Driscoll who is back to full fitness a month after he tore a hamstring whilst playing for Leinster in a match against Racing Metro and are currently the favourite to win the fixture following the build up to this tour, the Springboks have had 13 players removed from their squad due to injury and have finished bottom in the Tri Nations table, however they do still have the second row that features the pairing of Victor Matfield and Bakkies Botha.
Match starts on Saturday at 2.30pm from Twickenham and is being shown on Sky Sports 1.
The game kicks off on Saturday at 5.30pm from the Aviva Stadium and can be seen on BBC2.
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