CSB - While you were sleeping

Producer Mark runs you through what you missed while you were sleeping.

• All Blacks squad to face Japan
• Blackcaps squad to tour Sri Lanka
• Com Games 2026 sports announced 
• ASB Classic announcement 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
While you were sleeping. Yes, good morning sports fans and
Happy Wednesday. Full Back Reubin Love and loose for Peter
lucke I have both been named to debut off the
bench and the All Blacks team to face Japan on
Saturday and Yokohama. Patrick Tupaloto has been named captain, where
Sam Canon and Anton Leonard Brown the vice captains. Cam

(00:21):
Roriguard He returns to start at half back with Billy
Proctor at center, where Stephen Pittefetta in the fifteen jumper
simipenn f now starts at blindside and Wallace Titi at
number eight. The other notable changes the Comwealth Games. Rugby sevens,
hockey T twenty cricket have been ax from the comm Games,
but netball has survived. Fifteen sports have been binned off

(00:43):
for the Slimmed Down twenty twenty six event in Glasgow,
including road, cycling, triathlon and squash. The remaining ten are athletics, swimming, track, cycling, netball,
artistic gymnastics, weightlifting, boxing, judo, lawn bowls and three x
three basketball. The Rugby League now and a return to
the KIWIS thirteen has been confirmed Forbi Shawn Johnson short

(01:07):
of retirement for Shorty. The thirty four year old has
been named in the halves alongside Charles Nicol clock Star
for Sunday specific Championship game against the Kangaroos. Has sold
out christ Chitch Stadium to Tennis Now and former ASB
Classic Tennis top seed has resigned resigns for the next
years men's tournament. American world number twenty three Ben Sharlton

(01:27):
will play in Auckland after reaching the semi finals in
January of last year's tournament. The black Caps have named
a fifteen man weekend squad to TUIs Sri Lanka for
two T twenties and three One Day internationals squished between
the Test series against India and England next month. Usual
red ball starters Tom Nathan Kane, Williamson, Darryl Mitchell while

(01:47):
I rocked him sow They, Devin Conway, Tom Blundown Rutch
and Ravenda Ravener are absent as they prepare for the
home summer. Mitchell Satin will be the stand in captain.
The uncapped duo of Wellington all round it na Athan
Smith and Canterbury wicket keeper batsman and Mitch Hay are
selected bowler Ben Lister has been ruled out with a

(02:07):
side strain, replaced by Zach Falks batter Harry Henry Nichols
is set to play his first international in any format
since December