SYDNEY - Four Kiwis including test retirees Ruben Wiki and Stacey Jones have been named in a rugby league World XIII after the just-completed Tri-Nations tournament.
Prop Wiki, halfback Jones, prop Roy Asotasi and fullback Brent Webb were named in the team selected by journalists from the threemajor league nations and published in the latest Rugby League World magazine.
Eight Australians and Great Britain second rower and captain Jamie Peacock make up the side.
Wiki and Asotasi were first equal in voting for the two prop positions, heading off Kangaroos front rowers Petero Civoniceva and Willie Mason.
Jones headed off Kangaroos half Johnathan Thurston, Newcastle Knights superstar Andrew Johns and Great Britain's Sean Long for the No 7 jersey.
Webb, one of the Kiwis' standouts in Saturday's 12-16 loss to the Kangaroos in the final, won the fullback's spot ahead of Great Britain's Paul Wellens and New Zealand-born Kangaroos No 1 Karmichael Hunt.
The third Kiwi to retire on Saturday, Nigel Vagana, finished second on the voting to Kangaroos captain Darren Lockyer for the No 6 jersey while Sonny Bill Williams, ruled out of the Tri-Nations with a knee injury, was second to Manly loose forward Ben Kennedy.
World XIII: Brent Webb (New Zealand), Matt King (Australia), Mark Gasnier (Aust), Justin Hodges (Aust), Greg Inglis (Aust), Darren Lockyer (Aust), Stacey Jones (NZ), Ruben Wiki (NZ), Cameron Smith (Aust), Roy Asotasi (NZ), Jamie Peacock (Great Britain), Nathan Hindmarsh (Aust), Ben Kennedy (Aust).
