Watch: Julian Savea on facing Ireland
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All Blacks captain Kieran Read and Owen Franks will play Ireland for the seventh time on Sunday. Read started in five of those six previous encounters, scoring three tries.
Read will play his 95th test on Sunday and a victory would be his 84th win - seeing him tie eighth on the all-time wins list alongside former teammates Mils Muliaina and Conrad Smith. Read is the only test captain to lead a side to victories in 19 straight tests.
Listen: Justin Marshall on the All Blacks-Ireland test
Tries galore
All Blacks players hold the top five spots for tries scored by international players this year: Israel Dagg is top with eight tries, Beauden Barrett, Julian Savea and Ben Smith have scored seven, with TJ Perenara on five tries.
Smith, however, has scored just one try against Ireland in four tests. Savea has scored four against Ireland, three of those coming in his test debut in 2012.
Meanwhile, Barrett is second on the points-scoring list for 2016, with 118 points scored so far in 2016, with England's Owen Farrell on 135 points.
The matchday 23 is (with Test caps in brackets):
1. Joe Moody (20)
2. Dane Coles (46)
3. Owen Franks (87)
4. Patrick Tuipulotu (10)
5. Jerome Kaino (75)
6. Liam Squire (6)
7. Sam Cane (37)
8. Kieran Read - captain (94)
9. Aaron Smith (54)
10. Beauden Barrett (46)
11. Julian Savea (49)
12. Ryan Crotty (24)
13. George Moala (3)
14. Waisake Naholo (8)
15. Ben Smith (58)
16. Codie Taylor (11)
17. Ofa Tu'ungafasi (2)
18. Charlie Faumuina (42)
19. Scott Barrett *
20. Ardie Savea (9)
21. TJ Perenara (26)
22. Aaron Cruden (43)
23. Malakai Fekitoa (20)
