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The New Zealand vs Afghanistan live streamwill go a long way to deciding which one of three teams will reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2021 and one of them isn't even playing in the game.

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That's because India's fate rest on this game as much as does New Zealand's or Afghanistan's.

The permutations are many, but essentially, if New Zealand win, they are through probably in second place, but potentially in first if Pakistan slip up against Scotland later in the day.

If Afghanistan win and assuming India beat Namibia on Monday it'll all come down to the dreaded net run-rate, a calculation so complicated that it must have been designed by a math teacher with a hatred of sport.

In this regard, India hold the upper hand; they now have the best NRR of the three and will likely increase it considerably in their final game. So, could Afghanistan go through? Only with a big win here, followed by a modest victory or defeat for India.

The first of those is more likely than the second, which may influence how the Afghans approach this game. They were excellent against limited opponents in Namibia and Scotland, and could easily have beaten Pakistan but for some heroics at the end by Asif Ali. But here they'll need to do more than just win they'll need to win convincingly. With that in mind, they'll look to their star man, spinner Rashid Khan, to keep the New Zealand total low, then hope for quick runs from their batsmen.

New Zealand needn't worry about how they win they just need a victory. All of India will be hoping they don't get it.

Which way will this one go? You can find out by watching the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream at the T20 World Cup.

And don't forget to visit our full T20 World Cup 2021 hub for a guide to how to watch every game, plus fixtures, tables and more.

The New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream will be shown on many different channels across the world, but what if you're not in your home country and want to watch it on your usual service?

The answer is to use a VPN, or virtual private network. A VPN will let you tune into your home coverage from wherever you are meaning that if you're abroad, you can use one of the best VPN services to watch the games live as if you were in your lounge.

Our favorite right now is ExpressVPN, thanks to its combination of superb speed, great customer service and excellent device support. It also offers a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee, so you could check it out without having to sign up long term.

Using a VPN is incredibly simple.

1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, ExpressVPN is our favorite.

2. Choose the location you wish to connect toin the VPN app. For instance if you're in the U.S. and want to view a U.K. service, you'd select U.K. from the list.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to Sky Sports or another service and watch the T20 contest.

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The New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream will be shown live in the U.K. on Sky Sports and via the Sky Go app. You'll be able to find it on Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Main Event, with coverage starting at 9.30 a.m and the game at 10 a.m. GMT (the clocks have gone back, remember, so it's an hour earlier than before).

If you already have a Sky subscription that doesn't include Sports, you'll need to pay 22/month to add those channels. If you don't have Sky at all, it'll cost you at least 41/month, depending on which other channels you choose.

Whichever package you go for, you'll also gain access to coverage in 4K and HDR, so long as you also have an HDR-ready Sky Q box and HLG-compatible TV.

Another option is Sky's Now Sports streaming service. This gives you 24-hour access for 19.99 or month-long access for 33.99. It's available on virtually every streaming device and is a great option if you just want to watch for a fixed period.

All sounds great, right? But if you're not in the U.K., you can still follow the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream by using one of the best VPN services, such as ExpressVPN.

Cricket fans in the U.S. can watch the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream on either Willow TV or ESPN Plus.

If you choose the Willow TV route, you can watch via various cable packages including Dish, Fios, Spectrum, Xfinity and more.

But if you've cut the cord and don't have cable, don't worry because you can also watch Willow via Sling TV. You'll need a Sling subscription, which costs $35 for either the Orange or Blue package, and can then add Willow TV for $10/month or $60/year.

However, right now Sling is offering a 30-day trial for the bargain price of $10 and Willow TV is offering its first month for just $5 so you could watch the entire T20 World Cup 2021 for just $15.

But what if you already use those services but aren't in the U.S. right now? As we explained above, your best bet will be to use a VPN such as ExpressVPN so you can access them wherever you are and watch the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream as if you were sat at home.

Aussies also get a couple of options for where to watch the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream, in the form of Fox Sports or Kayo Sports.

Fox is available as part of many pay TV packages, but if you don't already have it then Kayo might be a better bet. It can be accessed via a dedicated mobile or tablet app, and also on Chromecast and Apple TV plus it costs a very reasonable $25 AUD per month for the basic package.

Plus, there's a 14-day free trial available for Kayo if you want to try the service before committing to a subscription.

Not in Australia right now? You can simply use a VPN to watch the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream on your Fox or Kayo account, as if you were back home.

New Zealanders can watch their Black Caps in the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream on Sky Sport. This costs $57.98 NZD per month, or $31.99/month extra if you already have Sky but not Sport. Plus there's currently an offer which gives you your first month free when you sign up for a year.

Alternatively, you could go for the Sky Sport Now service, which gives you just the Sport channels but for a reduced cost of $19.99/week / $39.99/month or $399/year.

Not at home in New Zealand right now? You can still follow the game by using one of the best VPN services, such as ExpressVPN.

We suspect many millions of fans in India will be watching the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream, given the impact it will have on their own chances. And to do so they'll need either Star Sports or Disney Plus Hotstar.

If you're cutting the cord and going the Hotstar route, you can pay Rs. 499/year for the new Mobile plan, which lets you watch on one mobile device, Rs. 899/year for the Super plan (2 devices, including TVs and laptops) or Rs. 1499 for Premium (4 devices plus 4K). There's more details here.

If you already subscribe to one of those services but are outside of Indiaright now, you can simply choose one of the best VPN servicessuch as ExpressVPN to follow the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream wherever you are are.

Lucky cricket fans in Pakistan can watch the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream on the state-owned channelPTV Sports which means they can enjoy the game for free.

It also means they can tune in via thePTV Sports website, where they can follow the New Zealand vs Afghanistan live stream without needing to sign up or create a registration of any kind.

Of course if you're usually based in Pakistan but aren't there right now,you can still enjoy your local coverage, for free, simply by signing up for a VPN such as ExpressVPN to live stream the action wherever you are are.

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The current moment is an uncertain time for just about every public-facing business and initiative including and especially those in the arts. You are, frankly speaking, lucky if youre able to attend a film festival these days as the good people of Auckland know, given the New Zealand international film festival sadly will not be rolling into town this year.

It is however full steam ahead in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, with the festival boasting a chunky programme: 164 feature-length films sourced from 51 countries. Here are 10 titles that should be on your radar.

Director: Jane Campion / Country: New Zealand/Australia

Few things compel cinephiles quite like the words directed by Jane Campion. The great auteurs first film in a dozen years is a sumptuous-looking western about less than sumptuous subject matter: toxic men circa Montana in 1925.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons play wealthy ranch owners, one of whom feels outraged and betrayed when the other abruptly gets married. Shocking confrontations ensue, in a film that (quoting Xan Brooks four star review) is a brawny, brooding drama about the wreckage caused by men.

Director: Lula Cucchiara / Country: New Zealand

One of New Zealands most renowned photographers, Fiona Clark is celebrated particularly for her documentation of Aucklands LGBT scene in the 1970s captured of course at a more repressive and conservative time. Sermons were preached about her, photographs were censored, and as the artist recounted in a 2017 essay everything to do with being gay or camp, or expressing sexuality in a different way, was illegal.

An element of fearlessness is synonymous with Clarks legacy, and reflected in the third word in the title of director Lula Cucchiaras new documentary.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino / Country: Italy

Sheer decadence is a good way to describe the all-out, everything-and-the-kitchen sink style of Italian auteur Paulo Sorrentino, whose films and TV series (including Il Divo, The Great Beauty and The Young Pope) reek of exuberance. Like with Baz Luhrmann, whose movies also often have the feel of epic shindigs, one imagines what itd be like to attend a party in his honour but you know none of your clothes will be fancy enough.

Sorrentinos latest film is reportedly his most personal, set around the time of the tragic death of his parents (caused by a carbon monoxide leak) when he was a teenager.

Director: Natalie Morales / Country: USA

Natalie Moraless dramedy belongs to the Zoom film genre, which received a shot in the arm during the pandemic. Captured entirely through screens and online interactions, Language Lessons emotionally unites two geographically distanced people, exploring the platonic friendship between a Costa Rica-based Spanish teacher (Morales) and her new California pupil (Mark Duplass).

Director: Amy Taylor / Country: New Zealand

taua-raised activist Chris Huriwai sets out to investigate, among other things, the veracity of dairy company Fonterras claim that New Zealands dairy industry is the most sustainable in the world. Hints about the kind of conclusions he arrives at can be found in billboards the makers of Milked launched this week in Auckland and Wellington. They arent exactly complimentary, congratulating the dairy industry for being our #1 polluter.

Director: Justin Kurzel / Country: Australia

Justin Kurzels film about Martin Bryant the perpetrator of Australias worst mass shooting event, which transpired in Tasmania in 1996 was always going to be controversial. This non-didactic and hauntingly poetic film, however, refuses easy answers, explores morally complex questions, and doesnt make the exploitative mistakes of other productions in this ethically icky genre such as presenting simple and/or sympathetic portrayals of killers.

Caleb Landry Jones is intensely eerie in the lead role, which won him a best actor award at this years Cannes film festival.

Director: Danis Goulet / Country: New Zealand / Canada

The festivals official synopsis for writer/director Danis Goulets thriller, executive produced by Taika Waititi, informs us that the film is based in a future world on the brink of collapse which also describes how most of us view the state of the present world. Set in 2043, in military-occupied North America, Goule follows Cree woman Niska (Elle-Mij Tailfeathers) as she teams up with Indigenous dissidents in order to free her daughter from the oppressive hands of the state.

Director: Wes Anderson / Country: USA

Just about any actor in the world would love to work with Wes Anderson, for the same reason audiences love to watch his films: style. The great American auteur has spawned many imitators but nobody is like the real thing with his symmetrical compositions, his overhead shots, his diorama-like set designs, his glorious tweeness and kitchiness.

The French Dispatch is Andersons love letter to The New Yorker: an anthology film capturing the lives of journalists working for a newspaper in a fictional French town called Ennui-sur-Blas.

Director: Michelle Savill / Country: New Zealand

Remember that famous New Yorker cartoon On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog? On the internet nobody necessarily knows where youre located, either. Mille Lies Low embraces the idea of online geographical obfuscation, which is a spiffy way of saying that the film revolves around a young woman using social media to fool people into thinking she is living in New York (whereas shes actually keeping a low profile in Wellington).

Director: Asghar Farhadi / Country: Iran

Oscar-winning Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi is known for directing psychologically complex dramas tightly centred around characters and performances. A Hero follows a divorced father (Amir Jadidi) who, on parole after being imprisoned for not paying his debts, launches a desperate plan to square things over with his creditor and if things go to plan free himself from the Big House. Expect a morally messy world filled with consequential decisions.

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From Milked to Night Raiders: Ten films to see at the New Zealand film festival - The Guardian

The Herald is making changes to how it monitors comments on social media posts.

A message to readers from the NZ Herald social media team:

Throughout our Covid response - and especially since the Delta variant of Covid-19 arrived - we've worked hard to ensure this community is free of misinformation.

This has admittedly been a challenge because the depth and breadth of our reporting means that we have shared a lot of Covid-related content with the community.

It has meant that comments have been closed whenever we were not able to actively monitor them, which could sometimes be a relatively short time after we posted.

We make no apology for that but we do acknowledge that it has been frustrating for those who wanted to discuss the myriad social and political issues that this extraordinary time has raised.

As the country nears our 90 per cent goal we know that the debate has become particularly charged - but also that the vast majority of us back the science behind vaccines as our strongest weapon in the fight against Covid.

Much of the debate is now around how we move on to living with Covid and what Aotearoa will look like - and we want to have that debate here.

So we're going to be leaving comments open longer on some of our Covid posts. This doesn't mean we won't monitor them and eventually close them, but it does mean that some of the comments you see below may not reflect the proven science around the vaccine. We want to empower our community to make that distinction themselves and to call out misinformation - and we will still remove those comments when we see them.

The threat of Covid is real and the emergence of the Delta variant requires all of us to play our part to keep each other safe. The most important way you can do that is by getting vaccinated. Here's what you need to know about vaccination - and how you can help Aotearoa reach our target.

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Every year, American police officers kill roughly 1,000 people. By comparison, New Zealand police officers kill, on average, about eight people per decade. Even if you adjust for the differences in population size, the gap in police violence is staggering. If American officers killed at the same rate per capita as those in New Zealand, about 50 Americans would die every year at the hands of the police.

This week, voters in Minneapolis decisively rejected a proposal to replace its much-maligned police department with a new department of public safety, and the rest of the United States remains fiercely divided over police reform. Some progressives cling to the faltering movement to defund the police, others suggest better training or accountability, and many Republicans insist that no reform is necessary. For years, there have been calls to expand the use of body cameras, to create more citizen-oversight panels, and to adopt more de-escalation training. All of those reforms are useful and can reduce avoidable police violence. But while American discourse has been focused on what the police do, New Zealand decided to improve upon its already-low levels of police violence by focusing on who the police are.

Several years ago, Doraville, Georgia, a small town not far from Atlanta, posted a disturbing police-recruitment video on the main page of the departments website. The video (which has since been taken down from the departments site, but remains online) opens by flashing the Punisher logo, a reference to a fictional vigilante whose tactics routinely include kidnapping, torture, and murder. Then a military vehicle screams into view, and officers in assault gear toss smoke grenades out the hatch before briefly exiting the vehicle to shoot their targets with military-style weapons. The entire video is accompanied by the song Die MF Die by the heavy-metal band Dope.

Anyone who went to the departments website while contemplating joining the force would have been greeted by that video. Its an unapologetic celebration of military tactics and the use of deadly force. For anyone who hoped to be part of a department devoted to public service and community policing, the video would be enough to dissuade them from applying. For other potential recruits who saw policing as being part of an occupying army that uses violence to lay down the law, the video would affirm that they had found the right department.

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As I discovered in my research, the profession of policing is heavily skewed by a self-selection bias. Just as tall kids are more likely than short ones to try out for the school basketball team, certain kinds of people are more drawn to policing than others. Helen King, the former assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London, told me that authoritarian personalities are disproportionately drawn to the uniform. If youre a bully, a bigot, or a sexual predator, policing is a really attractive career choice, she explained. This doesnt mean that police officers are overwhelmingly bullies and bigots, but it does mean that many bullies and bigots like the idea of being a cop. To put it bluntly, white men with authoritarian personalities are disproportionately likely to be drawn to policing.

Leigh Goodmark, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, has shown that police officers commit domestic violence more often than the general population, and that as a result of their training and their state imprimatur, police abuse of partners is more problematic and more potentially dangerous than abuse by civilians. The Atlantic has noted that violence against women is more of a problem in police departments than in the NFL, where domestic abuse has routinely made headlines. Other recent research has examined the presence of functional psychopaths in police departments.

Military veterans are also disproportionately represented in policing. Although 6 percent of Americans have served in the armed forces, 19 percent of police officers are veterans. Military experience makes sense for SWAT teams and some police operations, but the skills necessary to occupy Fallujah are not always the same as those needed to patrol Ferguson.

New Zealand recognized the potentially dangerous police self-selection effect and decided to tackle it head-on. The national police servicea centralized body that governs policing across the countrylaunched a recruitment scheme designed to attract people who normally would be much less likely to consider becoming an officer. The campaign leaned heavily on humor and featured an array of officers from diverse backgrounds. That was particularly important because people from the countrys indigenous Maori community were far more likely than white New Zealanders to be killed by police.

In one of the comedic recruitment videos, police officers chase an unseen perpetrator. Two womenboth from ethnic minoritieskick off the video by doing flips and barrel rolls through a warehouse. A Sikh officer bursts through a door, followed by a female officer turning to the camera and telling recruits that they can make a real difference. Another officer spells out whom they want to apply: those who care about others and their communities! He sprints past an old man crossing the street at a glacial pace, then doubles back to help him. After a series of amusing gags, the cops catch up to the perpetrator: a cute little border collie with a handbag in its mouth. Do you care enough to be a cop? flashes on-screen. The video went viral. Its been viewed nearly 2 million times; there are 5 million New Zealanders.

Kaye Ryan, a senior official for the New Zealand Police, explained to me that the video was intended to draw in the kinds of people who would make great officers, but who might never think about becoming an officer on their own. Its not that we dont want the white men, she told me. Its just that they come anyway.

Another set of recruitment videos called Hungry Boy used hidden cameras to see how civilians reacted to a visibly malnourished child looking for food on the streets. The videos highlighted the people who stopped to help the boy, implying that they were the kinds of people whom the police were looking for; those who didnt stop need not apply. The point was clear: Its easier to hire good apples than it is to train bad apples to behave better.

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After the PR campaign was launched in 2017, not only did a wider range of personality types apply, but applications from women and ethnic minorities dramatically increased too. In the past three years, the number of women in the New Zealand Police increased by 34 percent, the ranks of indigenous Maori officers grew by 23 percent, and the number of cops with Asian heritage expanded by 87 percent.

When Kiwis encounter an officer in uniform, theyre far more likely to represent local demographics than police in the United States, where hundreds of major police departments are, on average, about 30 percent whiter than the communities they patrol. This lack of representation in departments compounds the recruitment self-selection problem, because people are most likely to apply for jobs when they can see people like themselves already in the ranks. An overwhelmingly white department in a heavily Black community will struggle to recruit Black officers more than a more demographically reflective organization.

New Zealands modeland its social problemsare substantially different from those in the United States. There is no centralized recruitment effort in the United States, so some police departments do much better than others at reaching out to a diverse array of applicants. Moreover, with the prevalence of guns and of violence in America, its unrealistic to imagine that police officers will be unarmed (officers in New Zealand generally dont carry guns, but they do keep them in their squad cars), or will always be able to de-escalate as often as they are in much of the rest of the world, where civilian guns are scarce. And, given the track record of police violence against minorities in the United States, a glitzy recruitment video isnt going to be enough to persuade skeptical members of ethnic minorities to seek a badge in their city or town.

But at the moment, our debate is stuck, paralyzed between defund and do nothing. If were going to fix policing in the United States, we need to move beyond the stale arguments that focus only on police behavior. Instead, we need to think much more broadly about police identity and actively seek to recruit good people who are repulsed by the kinds of videos featured by the Doraville PDand are drawn to serve not because of the power associated with a badge and a gun, but in spite of it.

This essay is adapted from Klaass forthcoming book, Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us.

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How New Zealand Used Humor to Diversify Its Police - The Atlantic

The Cook Islands government has announced two-way quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and the Cook Islands will resume in January 2022.

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This announcement means the Cook Islands will be the only country that people in New Zealand can travel to and from for a holiday, without any quarantine or isolation from 14 January 2022.

However some families will be unable to make the trip all together, with children under the age of 12 not permitted to travel until the New Zealand government receives approval to vaccinate children between 5-11 years old.

Travellers will be required to take a Covid-19 test no more than 72 hours before departing and provide evidence of a negative test results both on departure and arrival in New Zealand. No test will be required upon arrival in the Cook Islands.

New Zealanders will be able to travel from the main island of Rarotonga to the island of Aitutaki, with the only requirement being that travellers undergo a Rapid Antigen Test before boarding their flight to Aitutaki. A further test may be required on Aitutaki.

Cook Islands Tourism general manager Graeme West said the Cook Islands was very fortunate to have remained Covid-19 free so far.

He said the Cook Islands government has prioritised the health and wellbeing of its residents and visitors throughout the pandemic. More than 96 percent of its eligible population are fully vaccinated.

"We were open for just three months from May to August this year until the current Delta outbreak in New Zealand meant that the border had to be closed. We are absolutely delighted that we can safely welcome fully vaccinated visitors from New Zealand back again very soon."

To assist with contact tracing in the Cook Islands, Travellers will be required to complete a Cook Islands contact form 72 hours before departing New Zealand and also use the Pacific nation's own app-based contact tracing system.

The travel corridor is exclusively open between New Zealand and the Cook Islands, and the Cook Islands maritime border will remain closed.

The Cook Islands government said full details will become available on their tourism website over the next few weeks.

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Cook Islands announces two-way quarantine-free travel with NZ - RNZ

Beauden Barrett marked his 100th test with two intercepted tries to lead New Zealand to a convincing 54-16 win over Wales in Cardiff on Saturday.

The All Blacks outscored their hosts by seven tries to one at a capacity Principality Stadium in another ominous reminder of their power as they went back to the top of the world rankings.

TJ Perenara, Will Jordan, Dalton Papali, Sevu Reece and Anton Lienart-Brown also dotted down with Jordie Barrett adding three penalties and five conversions for a personal tally of 19 points.

Wales, who lost skipper Alun Wyn Jones to injury early on, replied with a try from Johnny Williams and penalties from Gareth Anscombe (2) and Rhys Priestland.

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Captain Jones, in his 149th appearance for Wales, was forced off with a shoulder injury as he attempted to tackle Jordie Barrett. It was the same one dislocated playing for the British & Irish Lions against Japan in June.

New Zealand ran riot in the final 20 minutes with a display of running rugby that even the most ardent Welsh supporters could not help but admire, but it was Barrett's early try that laid the platform for their victory.

The former World Rugby Player of the year took only five minutes to intercept a pass from Wales fly-half Gareth Ainscombe and run down the pitch to dot between the posts.

Perenara added another try about 30 minutes later but the All Blacks had a tenuous 18-6 lead at half time and started the second half down to 14 men when Nepo Laulale was yellow-carded for a no-arm tackle on Ross Moriarty.

But when the rain began to pour, the Kiwis were at their devastating best with a clever kick and chase for Jordan's 55th-minute try, followed by four more in a rampant last 15 minutes, including another interception for the centurion on the final whistle.

Wales, who were without their English-based players, had one highlight when Priestland's clever kick allowed Williams to rush through and dot down ahead of the Kiwi defence for their only try on the hour mark.

"We wanted to ramp it up a bit there in the second half. We were happy with the outcome after a different week for us, coming across from playing in Washington," All Blacks captain Sam Whitelock said.

Wales take on world champions South Africa next in the Autumn international series while New Zealand travel to Rome to play Italy.

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By any measure, the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team are the most successful sports team in the world. Period. But how does a team achieve a win rate of 77 per cent (84 per cent since 2008) and how do the All Blacks players build the strength, agility, durability, fitness and power necessary to defeat all comers?

That's at least in part down to the team's strength and conditioning work, which is led by the team's strength and conditioning coach, Nic Gill, who is also an associate professor in human performance at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

As he explains, while the team does use the latest training methodologies to eke out every marginal gain, the overall strategy is simple and can be applied to anyone's training.

The All Blacks secret, Gill said in an interview with The Telegraph, is following the Big Rocks philosophy, which is the belief that if you stack your glass with small grains of sand faddish new workouts and of-the-moment diets you won't have the space for the big rocks or your strength work, functional movement and cardio fitness. What you have to do then is build your strategy around those big rocks first.

"Big Rocks is really about doing the basics really well," explains Gill. "What I mean by that is most of the general population can achieve huge things in health and happiness by doing the basics well, like flexibility, stretching and energy system development across the spectrum short, hard stuff, moderate duration and long and slow stuff and a mix of strength and bodyweight conditioning. If we have little snippets of that throughout our week, and we eat well, were going to look great, were going to feel great and were going to be happy people."

"When we try to complicate things, we get lost. So filter out all that complexity, and put a basic plan in place. That is what we do."

Gill went on to expand on eight of the All Blacks 'Big Rocks', which you can see below.

Rugby's a physical sport, which requires well-rounded, physical athletes. That's why training programmes are built around compound lifts. "Its a collision sport: we have big strong men running hard at one another and colliding, so if your muscles, bones and tendons are not strong, you will come off second best," said Gill.

"We need to be strong through our hips and shoulders and if we can string them together with some exercises where we develop a strong spine or trunk, then were laughing," he said. "The key exercises are a bilateral hip movement, such as a squat or a deadlift, and a push or a pull movement, whether that is above the head or out in front, like a bench press, a military press or some chin-ups. We are really trying to work on full-body strength, using multiple joints."

All those compound lifts are also good for core strength, which is also a crucial 'rock' for the All Blacks. "If we squat with good form and good weight, then your trunk has no choice but to get strong," explained Gill. "But we sprinkle in lots of different challenging tasks, whether thats planking, flexion of the trunk, or whether that is stability or anti-rotation work with medicine balls." Players also do barbell rollouts, V-sits and Swiss ball holds.

In order to prevent muscle imbalances, Gill complements big compound lifts with single-limb work, including weighted step-ups, split squats, Bosu balance stands and Turkish get-ups with kettlebells, as well as single-leg hops, skips and bounds. "Sprinkled among all that is lots of single-leg or single-limb work and lots of injury-prevention exercises," explained Gill.

So far, Gill's discussed training methods, now here's an exact exercise to add to your programme: bear crawls. "We do a lot of wrestling and a lot of crawling, mainly for mobility and preparation for rugby, Gill said. This is all about getting ready to practise but it is also part of the injury prevention-theme. Lets crawl, lets get our hips moving, lets get our shoulders loaded, and lets work on our range of motion and mobility. Or lets wrestle and make sure were ready for combat."

The All Blacks have been using Wattbikes for over a decade, utilising them for recovery, rehab and competition. "We use it for recovery (a spin helps to remove lactate from aching muscles after games). We use it for rehab because we can address any imbalances in the legs. And we use it for competition because young athletes love competition and trying to beat each other," said Gill.

Specifically on the topic of recovery, Gill said: "When youre 130kg, theres only so much running you can do before you increase your risk of injury. But with Wattbikes we can improve the condition and physical qualities off-feet, with no risk to joints or Achilles tendonitis or ankles. We can actually sidestep all the things players really suffer from and achieve the same metabolic stress and conditioning on a Wattbike."

The perception is that these are big guys, throwing around big weights, but that's not always the case. "Some of our big boys can only do bodyweight chin-ups anyway because they are so big," said Gill.

"Some of our Wattbike sessions are super-setted with bodyweight circuits," added Gill. "So we might do a crawl, a pull, a press and a Wattbike sprint. The bodyweight (exercise) provides functional conditioning. The Wattbike is replacing the sprint on the field. And the crawl and press are replacing getting up and down from a tackle. So burpees and all of these things are really important."

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Like all athletes, the All Blacks need to make time for stretching and yoga sessions in order to help prevent injuries and strains. "We do a lot of stretching and mobility. We do small touches of that daily, before or after training, or in the gym. Sometimes twice a day they will be doing soft tissue work, myofascial release, mobility, band stretching and partner-assisted stretching."

While the All Blacks training is dominated by the Big Rocks there's still room for some small grains of sand to slip through, with Gill stressing the importance of trying new things and learning new skills. "Were constantly trying new things and getting a balance between fads and real new methods that might help us long-term," explained Gill. "We dont look for quick fixes or silver bullets, but we will try things. Every week youre thinking: can I learn something different? From athletes to staff, we are chasing perfection but we will never get there. So long as we are actually trying to get there, that is the main thing."

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Ireland head coach Andy Farrell says tomorrow's meeting with Japan at the Aviva Stadium will not be a dress rehearsal for next week's game against New Zealand.

Farrell yesterday picked a strong team to face the Brave Blossoms, with suggestions he could go with the same formula against the All Blacks seven days later.

As well as a starting team containing Johnny Sexton, and Lions Tadhg Beirne, Jack Conan, Tadhg Furlong, Bundee Aki, Farrell has opted for an experienced bench, including Conor Murray, Iain Henderson, Peter O'Mahony and Keith Earls.

However the head coach is adamant there is scope for any of tomorrow's replacements, or indeed players outside the 23 to force their way into his plans for the visit of the All Blacks.

"It's 100% open," he said when asked of the selection to face New Zealand.

"I've never been a coach that promised anyone anything. I learned a long, long time ago never to shoot myself in the foot. Youve got to earn your right to play."

One of those who firmly looks to be in Farrell's plans is Leinster scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park (below).

The 29-year-old is seemingly rated higher among the Ireland coaches than he is by his province, generally subbing for Luke McGrath at provincial level, but has been a consistent presence in Farrell's matchday squads since making his debut in 2020.

Gibson-Park gets the nod ahead of Murray for tomorrow's meeting with Japan, what will be his fifth start in Ireland's last seven games.

"He's started believing in himself at this level," Farrell says.

"Hes not just going about his job, making sure that hes okay across his work, hes comfortable with all that now. Hes able to lead, hes come out of himself within the squad and therefore I think thats relaxed him as well and we see his point of difference come out.

"Certainly in that game, thats the speed of the game that we want him to play. Hes an instinctive player and he certainly did that, that day."

Meanwhile, the Ireland head coach remained coy on whether or not Robbie Henshaw is on track to face New Zealand next week.

The Leinster centre has stayed with the Ireland squad as he continues to rehab a foot injury, which has denied him any game time so far this season.

Farrell says they will give the 28-year-old every chance to prove his fitness, but won't rush him into a return.

"There's no pressure on Robbie. Robbie, he was on the outer last week doing his rehab, he's in camp this week still doing his rehab, he hasn't trained with us at all. He hasn't done much team work.

"If all goes well, there's a plan next week to reintegrate him into that type of thing. I've said to Robbie there's no pressure, it is what it is, when he's ready he's ready.

"There's no pushing from our side. We'll see how the coming days go for him."

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England head coach Simon Middleton said Poppy Cleall was one of the best players in the world during the 2021 Women's Six NationsVenue: Franklin's Gardens, Northampton Date: Sunday, 7 November Kick-off: 14:45 GMTCoverage: Watch on BBC Two and follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.

Poppy Cleall will captain England for the first time in Sunday's rematch against New Zealand as regular skipper Sarah Hunter is pushed to the bench.

The 29-year-old said leading her country was "a huge honour".

Scrum-half Leanne Infante starts in place of Claudia MacDonald and will be vice-captain at Franklin's Gardens.

Cleall added: "I'm going to have to tell the girls what an honour it is because I'm not sure they quite realise how special it is to lead a team of incredible rugby players and people. I'm hugely proud."

Head coach Simon Middleton said: "With less than a year to go until the World Cup, it's important our leadership group is broad.

"We know what the side looks like when Sarah captains it against New Zealand. We wanted to know what it looked like with another captain. Poppy was perfectly placed to do that."

Helena Rowland, usually a fly-half for England, starts at inside centre in Northampton.

Zoe Harrison retains the starting 10 shirt after a player of the match performance Middleton described as "sensational" in Exeter.

Rowland's inclusion means Lagi Tuima is on the bench, with Holly Aitchison maintaining her place at 13 in the absence of injured star Emily Scarratt.

Middleton has also made changes in the front row, with prop Vickii Cornborough and hooker Amy Cokayne starting and Hannah Botterman and Lark Davies on the bench in an inversion of last weekend's line-up.

Cleall's move to number eight leaves room for Zoe Aldcroft to return to the second row, while Alex Matthews is called into the back row.

Last Sunday's 43-12 defeat was New Zealand's biggest losing margin in 100 Tests and came less than a year before the Black Ferns host the World Cup - a tournament they won for the fifth time in 2017.

For England, another victory is needed in Northampton to avoid New Zealand taking their spot at the top of the world rankings.

The Black Ferns will be buoyed by the return of Olympic sevens gold medallist Portia Woodman as the wing plays her first XVs Test since New Zealand's 2017 World Cup win.

England: Kildunne; Thompson, Aitchison, Rowland, Dow; Harrison, Infante (vice-capt); Cornborough, Cokayne, Bern, Aldcroft, Ward, Matthews, Packer, Cleall (capt).

Replacements: Davies, Botterman, Muir, Millar-Mills, Hunter, MacDonald, Tuima, McKenna.

New Zealand: Robins-Reti; Woodman, Fluhler, Brooker, Leti-I'iga; Demant, Cocksedge; Love, Houpapa-Barrett, Nelso, Ngan-Woo, Wills, Bremner, Elder (capt), Mikarele-Tu'u.

Replacements: Ngata-Aerengamate, Itunu, Rule, Roos, Simon, Bayler, Maliepo, Hohepa.

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The Killers are bringing their Imploding The Mirage Tour to New Zealand next year.

US band The Killers will bring their Imploding The Mirage Tour 2022 to New Zealand next November.

Originally announced for 2020, this will be the bands first time back on New Zealand shores since 2018.

The band have announced two New Zealand shows: the first at Aucklands Spark Arena on November 21 and then at Christchurch Arena on November 25. Tickets go on sale on November 15 at 2pm.

As part of their 2022 tour, The Killers will perform headline shows and festivals across the globe in celebration of their sixth studio album Imploding The Mirage, released last year.

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The Las Vegas band has since released their seventh studio album, Pressure Machine (2021), a quieter reflective album, recorded during the height of the pandemic, and including songs like Quiet Town and Runaway Horses.

The Killers first burst onto the scene with their debut album Hot Fuss in 2004, featuring now iconic songs like Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me.

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As part of their 2022 tour, The Killers are set to perform headline shows and festivals across the globe in celebration of their critically-acclaimed sixth studio album Imploding The Mirage, released last year.

Auckland Spark Arena November 21

Christchurch Christchurch Arena November 25

Tickets go on sale November 15, 2021 at 2pm.

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