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    Aug 12, 2021 5 minutes

    IAN KIRKPATRICK

    DEBUT: Wednesday, 18 October 1967 v Eastern Canada at Montreal aged 21 years, 147 days

    LAST TEST: Saturday, 13 August 1977 v British & Irish Lions at Auckland aged 31 years, 81 days

    PLAYED: 113 matches, 39 Tests, 74 Games

    FUN FACT Kirkpatrick is the only man to have captained both islands: the South in 1969 in his last season with Canterbury and then the North (in 1972-73) when he had returned home to Poverty Bay.

    There are so many ways to measure Ian Kirkpatrick’s contribution and impact on rugby. Tall, strong, fast, athletic and with an uncanny ability to anticipate where play was going, he quickly rose through rugby’s ranks.

    He captained his country 43 times and was skipper on the 1972-73 tour to Europe that saw Keith Murdoch sent home, a

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