Barrett was set to start at fullback in the first Bledisloe Cup match of 2024 but has been ruled through illness. Beauden Barrett ruled out. With the veteran All Blacks‘ back no

Veteran Beauden Barrett was recalled to the New Zealand team named Thursday to face Australia in The Rugby Championship as All Blacks head coach Scott Robertson made four changes. Australia will name their team later Thursday.

New Zealand head coach Scott Robertson has included Beauden Barrett and T.J. Perenara on the bench for the All Blacks' second Rugby Championship test against South Africa at Cape Town as he looks to add impact to his reserves.

Perenara is replaced at scrumhalf by Cortez Ratima, who gets only his second start for the All Blacks, while Wallace Sititi, who made his debut in July, takes the place of Blackadder on the blindside of the scrum.

Fullback Beauden Barrett will return to the starting 15 in the All Blacks team that will play Australia in the Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup test in Sydney on Saturday. Barrett had been named on the bench for the second test against South Africa in Cape Town two weeks ago as head coach Scott Robertson tried to add experience to solve New Zealand's problem with closing out matches.

The All Blacks have made four changes to their starting line-up ahead of the first Bledisloe Cup test in Sydney against the Wallabies from the team that suffered a 18-12 loss to the Springboks in Cape Town.