{"id":14927,"date":"2025-11-10T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/all-blacks-winger-clarke-ruled-out-of-england-showdown\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:20","slug":"all-blacks-winger-clarke-ruled-out-of-england-showdown","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/all-blacks-winger-clarke-ruled-out-of-england-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks winger Clarke ruled out of England showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New Zealand winger Caleb Clarke has been ruled out of Saturday\u2019s test against England at Twickenham after failing a head injury assessment following a head-knock in the 25-17 win over Scotland.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Clarke\u2019s setback follows ankle problems which have limited the outside back to three tests this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s unlucky for him,\u201d All Blacks assistant coach Jason Holland told New Zealand media.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cCaleb is a loss, and we\u2019ve got a couple of big decisions to be made in the next couple of days about how we get the best guys on the park to start and finish the game.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All Blacks captain and lock Scott Barrett is expected to be back for the England clash, though, after missing the Murrayfield win with leg lacerations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Beating England will keep the All Blacks on track to complete a \u201cGrand Slam\u201d of wins over the home nations for the first time since 2010.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>England had a convincing 38-18 win over Fiji over the weekend after humbling Australia 25-7.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After England, Scott Robertson\u2019s New Zealand finish off the season-ending tour against struggling Wales.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Barrett aside, Holland said the players were \u201ca bit beaten-up with bangs and knocks\u201d after a long season but all were available for England.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14928,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14927","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Clarke\u2019s setback follows ankle problems which have limited the outside back to three tests this year.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Clarke\u2019s setback follows ankle problems which have limited the outside back to three tests this year.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19378,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14927\/revisions\/19378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}