WELLINGTON: Sonny Bill Williams will not travel with the All Blacks for their final Rugby Championship match against Australia in Perth on Aug. 10, coach Steve Hansen said on Sunday.
"He'll be available for Perth, but we're not going to take him. We're going to get him to play two, or three ... as many games as we can get in between there and Auckland." He played 59 minutes of the All Blacks 16-16 draw with South Africa in Wellington on Saturday before being replaced by Anton Lienert-Brown.While he did not make a characteristic line break or offload in the tackle he often drew three defenders, which created mismatches outside him.
"The key thing we asked him to do was stay there and stay injury free. He did that," Hansen said after the match.