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Chris Hewett: Touring is back! But let’s see the best take on the best

Chris Hewett welcomes the return of touring rugby between South Africa and New Zealand but questions why the best provincial players have not been given the chance to test themselves against the All Blacks’ finest.
Rieko Ioane breaks through to score.

When someone with a grasp of rugby history comes to write an account of the great tours of recent memory, England’s tragi-comic slog around the southern hemisphere in 1998 is unlikely to feature.
Those of us who were there knew we were in for something unforgettably forgettable from the get-go, when poor Tony Diprose, lumbered with the dubious honour of leading a third-strength team in Brisbane, found himself being bushwhacked by an errant firework, a platoon of smart-arsed locals in loud shirts performing physical jerks directly in his face and a landslide of Wallaby tries.

For all that, it...

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