All Blacks: Third Bledisloe test set for 2012

All Blacks hookers Andrew Hore and Keven Mealamu with the Bledisloe Cup after their win against Australia in August. Photo / Brett Phibbs

The All Blacks and Wallabies will meet in a third Bledisloe Cup test in Brisbane on October the 20 next year.

The test, not part of the inaugural Rugby Championship, has been announced by the Australian Rugby Union and will precede both side's spring Northern Hemisphere tours.

The All Blacks and Wallabies have previously played additional Bledisloe Cup tests in Hong Kong, twice and Tokyo.

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