Rugby: All Black titan plays for English town's 2nd XV

Jerry Collins shocked an amateur English side when he joined in a local game. Photo / Brett Phibbs

An amateur English rugby side got a shock to discover they were up against All Black Jerry Collins.

The flanker, while holidaying in Britain after the Rugby World Cup, agreed to play for a local 2nd XV.

Nicknamed The Terminator, 26-year-old Collins led Barnstaple to a 21-7 win against Newton Abbot in a Devon league.

Although Collins scored a try and made a series of crunching tackles, he sportingly avoided his fiercest tactics and went off after 55 minutes.

Collins was on a break in Devon after the World Cup when he bumped into Barnstaple rugby director Kevin Squire.

The 45-year-old builder told British newspaper the Sun: "I invited him to watch a game. He came and even coached our under-14s."

Meanwhile, the stunned Newton Abbot coach Phil Burford said: "It's not every day someone of his stature plays at your club."

The social teams were made up of butchers, brick-layers and builders.