Caleb Ralph
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| Caleb Ralph | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Caleb Stan Ralph | ||
| Date of birth | September 10 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotorua, New Zealand | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in) | ||
| Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | ||
| School | Western Heights High | ||
| Occupation(s) | Professional rugby union footballer | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | centre Wing |
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| Provincial/State sides | Caps | (points) | |
| 1996- | Bay of Plenty Auckland Canterbury |
25 17 66 |
(-) (-) (-) |
| Super Rugby | |||
| 1997 1998-1999 2000- |
Chiefs Blues Crusaders |
3 6 103 |
(275; 55 Tries) |
| National team(s) | |||
| 1998- | New Zealand NZ Maori |
15 - |
(45) (-) |
| 7's National teams | |||
| 1996- | New Zealand | ||
Caleb Stan Ralph (born 10 September 1977 in Rotorua) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. Ralph began his first-class career with Bay of Plenty, then moved to Auckland before heading to Canterbury. He started his Super Rugby career with the Chiefs in 1997, Blues (1998-99) and the Crusaders (2000-present). He made his All Black debut while playing for Auckland in 1998.
After an absence from the national team of three years he was recalled in 2001, and was a regular member of the All Blacks throughout the 2002 and 2003 seasons, playing a total of 13 tests and scoring eight tries, including a hat-trick against Italy in 2002, and was a member of the New Zealand team during the 2003 Rugby World Cup. In 2006 he gained his 100th consecutive super rugby cap, a record that compares favourably to those achieved by all the greats of New Zealand rugby, such as Colin 'Pinetree' Meads, Wayne 'Buck' Shelford, and Dave Loveridge.
He made the New Zealand sevens side while still at Western Heights High School, Rotorua. He has since regularly represented New Zealand in Rugby sevens between 1996 and 2000 playing with Eric Rush and was a member of the gold medal-winning New Zealand team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Ralph won the Canterbury Maori Trophy on December 10, 2005. Rumoured to have had a relationship with Zara Phillips. [1] In 2008 he signed up to play with Japanese club Fukuoka Sanix Blues.[2]
- Province: Canterbury
- Provincial Caps: 108 (66 Canterbury, 25 Bay of Plenty, 17 Auckland)
- Provincial Debut: 1996 v Canterbury (Bay of Plenty)
- Super 14 Caps: 112 (103 Crusaders, 3 Chiefs, 6 Blues)
- Super 14 Points: 265 (55t) 3rd
- Super 14 Debut: 1997 v Gauteng Lions (Chiefs)
- Test Caps: 15
- Test Points: 45(9t)
- Test Debut: 1998 v England
[edit] References
- ^ All Blacks royal romance. rugbyheaven.com.au. Retrieved on 21 December 2006.
- ^ "Ex-All Black joins Japan's Sanix", Daily Yomuiri Online, 2008-05-08. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
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