Over 40,000 tickets sold for All Blacks test

All Blacks captain Richie McCaw in action against Australia, during the Tri-Nations test match. Photo / Brett Phibbs

More than 40,000 tickets have been sold for the Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup test between the All Blacks and Australia at Eden Park on August 25.

The match comes a week after the first encounter of the series between the two nations in Sydney. Eden Park has a capacity of 48,000. The other matches in the inaugural championship are in Wellington on September 8 for the All Blacks v Argentina match and in Dunedin on September 15 for the All Blacks v South Africa match.