Kieran Read
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| Full name | Kieran James Read | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 26 October 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Papakura, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 110 kg (17 st 5 lb; 240 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Rosehill College | ||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Number 8, Blindside Flanker | ||||||||||||||||
| New Zealand No. | 1083 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2006– | Canterbury | 37 | (50) |
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Correct as of 28 July 2013
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| Super Rugby | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2007– | Crusaders | 133 | (105) |
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Correct as of 23 July 2016
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2008– | New Zealand | 97 | (105) |
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Correct as of 26 November 2016
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Kieran Read (born 26 October 1985) is the captain of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. He also plays for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition. He was the IRB Player of the Year in 2013 and a key member of 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only 20 dual Rugby World Cup winners.
He supplanted Rodney So'oialo as the All Blacks' first-choice number 8 in 2009. After occasionally captaining the team at times when Richie McCaw was unavailable, he was appointed to the full captaincy before the 2016 test season.
Read played his childhood rugby in the small town of Drury in the Counties Manukau region, just south of Auckland. He attended Opaheke Primary School (where his mother taught) and Rosehill College, with a one-year interlude at Saint Kentigern College in 2000. Read excelled in all aspects of school life, but especially on the sports field. He gained excellent marks through to the end of seventh form. He was Head Boy of the 2000-student Rosehill College, as well as Sportsman of the Year and Sports All-rounder of the Year. Read was a talented cricketer, representing Northern District age-group teams and being selected for the New Zealand Under-17 tournament side in 2002.
Despite his age-group success as a cricket batsman, Read focused his efforts on rugby. One year after leaving school, he began his professional career in the Canterbury development squad. Read played his first National Provincial Championship game in 2006, his second year out of college.
Read played for the Crusaders in the Super 14 in 2007 as a blindside flanker. He moved to number 8 during the 2008 season, culminating in the squad winning the Super Rugby title.
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