Wales suffer massive blow head of All Blacks clash
TEAM UPDATE: Wales’s hopes of a much-needed morale-boosting victory over New Zealand in the Nations Series Test suffered a blow with experienced back row forward Aaron Wainwright ruled out on Friday.
The 28-year-old, capped 61 times, has been replaced at No 8 in the starting XV by Taine Plumtree with uncapped Morgan Morse called up as a replacement for Saturday’s match.
Wales have lost their last 33 matches against New Zealand, with their last victory coming back in 1953.
Wales: 15 Blair Murray, 14 Louis Rees-Zammit, 13 Max Llewellyn, 12 Joe Hawkins, 11 Tom Rogers, 10 Dan Edwards, 9 Tomos Williams, 8 Taine Plumtree, 7 Harri Deaves, 6 Alex Mann, 5 Dafydd Jenkins, 4 Adam Beard, 3 Keiron Assiratti, 2 Dewi Lake (captain), 1 Rhys Carre.
Replacements: 16 Brodie Coghlan, 17 Gareth Thomas, 18 Archie Griffin, 19 Freddie Thomas, 20 Morgan Morse, 21 Kieran Hardy, 22 Jarrod Evans, 23 Nick Tompkins.
Date: Saturday, November 22
Venue: Principality Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 15.10 (15.10 GMT; 04.10 Sunday, November 23)
Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)
Assistant referees: Andrea Piardi (Italy, Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy)
TMO: Ian Tempest (England)