Kieran Read ( born 26 October 1985) is a rugby union player for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition and New Zealand internationally. He plays as a blind-side flanker or No.8, but has the ability and height to play in the lock position. In 2009 he supplanted Rodney So'oialo as the All Blacks first choice No.8.

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