Brodie Retallick

Retallick scored a try in the 22nd minute, which was the first of his international career, and played the full 80 minutes, as the All Blacks beat South Africa 29–15.

Retallick played the full 80 minutes and scored a try in the 51st minute.

Brodie Allan Retallick (born 31 May 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, who currently plays as a lock for Kobelco Kobe Steelers in the Japan Rugby League One competition.

He previously played for the Chiefs in Super Rugby and in New Zealand's domestic National Provincial Championship.

Retallick played for the Hawkes Bay Magpies in the 2010 and 2011 ITM Cup.

He represented New Zealand under 20 in the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.

Retallick scored the opening try against France in the 11th minute and lasted the full 80 minutes of the quarter-final as the All Blacks beat France by a record 62–13.

Retallick played the full 80 minutes of both the semi-final, a 20–18 win over South Africa, and the final on 31 October, when the All Blacks beat Australia 34–17, becoming the first team to win three Rugby World Cups.

Retallick made his international debut for New Zealand in 2012 and has been a regular starter ever since, with over 100 test caps.

Retallick earned a contract with the Chiefs for the 2012 Super Rugby season and had become a regular starter for the Chiefs by the end of the season.

He started in the Super Rugby Final, on 4 August that year, with the Chiefs winning against the Sharks 37–6.

His debut for the All Blacks was against Ireland on 9 June 2012, during their tour of New Zealand.

Retallick started on debut, in a locking combination with Sam Whitelock, a combination that has been regularly used by the All Blacks ever since Retallick's debut, which ended in a 42–10 win for New Zealand.

Retallick played in every match for the All Blacks, either from the bench or starting, in the 2012 Rugby Championship, playing 13 games for the national side in total for the 2012 season.

He started again for the Chiefs in the 2013 Final.

Retallick then continued his workload for the All Blacks by playing a further 11 tests during the year, and was a regular starter for the All Blacks by the time the 2013 Rugby Championship had started, with Luke Romano battling with injury.

He cemented his place in the side on 14 September 2013, winning the award for Man of the Match against South Africa.

By 2014, he was an automatic selection for the All Blacks.

Retallick played in 12 tests for the All Blacks in 2014 and won the World Rugby Player of the Year award and the Kelvin R Tremain award for the best New Zealand-based player of the year.

He was a key member of 2015 Rugby World Cup-winning team, the winner of World Rugby Player of the Year in 2014 and is the award's youngest winner to date.

Retallick has earned frequent comparisons to the late former All Black lock, Sir Colin Meads.

Retallick was selected by head coach Steve Hansen as one of 31 players for New Zealand's squad for the 2015 World Cup after a string of outstanding performances for the All Blacks and the Chiefs.

Retallick played well during the competition, earning him a starting spot for the quarter-final against France on 17 October 2015.

Retallick was subbed off towards the end of the last Bledisloe Cup test against Australia, on 22 October 2016, in Auckland, following a concussion caused by Dean Mumm elbowing him.

This saw Retallick miss a test against Ireland on the end of year tour that year.

The first test against Ireland in Chicago was the only test Retallick missed that year.

Retallick returned to test rugby with a solid performance off the bench in the 68–10 win against Italy and returned to his starting position in the second test against Ireland in Dublin, on 19 November 2016.

New Zealand beat Ireland in the second test, with a 21–9 win.

Retallick was selected as one of the 33 players for the All Blacks to face Samoa and the touring British & Irish Lions in 2017.

Retallick took over as captain of the All Blacks for the final 20 minutes of the 78-0 thrashing of Samoa, following captain Ben Smith being subbed off for debutant Jordie Barrett.

Retallick was arguably the best performing New Zealander in the Lions series, dominating the Lions in all three tests of the drawn series, which finished on 8 July, with a 15-15 stalemate.

Prior to being rested for a test against Argentina in Buenos Aires for the 2017 Rugby Championship, Retallick had played every minute of every All Blacks test in 2017.

Retallick did not play in 2017 again, following the previous fixture, however, which was a 57–0 win against South Africa, where he scored his fourth test try, because of personal reasons.

Patrick Tuipulotu was recalled to the All Blacks following Retallick's personal issues.

Rookie lock Scott Barrett became a regular starter for the All Blacks in Retallick's absence.

Retallick returned to playing rugby for the Chiefs in the 2018 Super Rugby season and scored the first double of his Super Rugby career on 16 March 2018, returning from an eye injury, to enable a Chiefs comeback to beat the Bulls 41–28.

He finished the competition with six tries (second-to-most in the Chiefs for the season).

Retallick missed the 2018 series against France due to a pectoral injury.

Retallick was re-selected for the All Blacks for the 2018 Rugby Championship.

Retallick played his first test of 2018, on 18 August, when the All Blacks beat Australia 38–13 in Sydney.