Name Wyatt Crockett Career start 2005 Weight 116 kg | Height 1.93 m Role Rugby Player | |
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Wyatt William Vogels Crockett (born 24 January 1983) is a New Zealand rugby union player. He plays at prop for the Crusaders in Super Rugby, Canterbury in the National Provincial Championship, and the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.
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Crockett attended Nelson College from 1994 to 2000, and Otago Boys High School in 2001.
He made his All Blacks debut against Italy in 2009.
In 2011 he was selected in the All Blacks Tri-Nations Squad as injury cover. However he narrowly missed selection to the victorious New Zealand squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
In 2014, First choice prop Tony Woodcock was injured in the All Blacks third test against England, Crockett played nearly all the rest of the games on tour for the All Blacks.
Crockett was selected for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where New Zealand retained the Webb Ellis Cup. He notably started in the quarter-final against France which was a 62-13 win to New Zealand. Crockett was injured in that game however, ending his World Cup campaign. This saw Crockett lose his regular place in the All Blacks as a starter to Joe Moody, who was called up as a replacement, succeeding Crockett as a starter in 2016.
Crockett currently holds the world record of consecutive Test wins - 43 (as of 8 November 2016). Crockett's record run was ended when the All Blacks were beaten 24-21 by the British and Irish Lions at Westpac stadium on 1st July 2017.
Crockett only played 14 minutes against the Wallabies on 19th August 2017 in Sydney following an injury.