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Retallick, Farrell to win 100th Test caps in Twickenham Test

New Zealand lock Brodie Retallick and England captain Owen Farrell will both win their 100th Test caps after being named in the respective starting XVs for Saturday's encounter at Twickenham.

Retallick was banned for two weeks for dangerous play during the All Blacks' 38-31 win over Japan in Tokyo last month after being sent off for charging into a ruck and missed New Zealand's recent wins over Wales and Scotland.

The 31-year-old will become the 12th All Black to reach the milestone and just the second lock alongside captain Samuel Whitelock.

Retallick and Whitelock will also set a new world record of 64 Test starts together, with the previous best of 63 held by South Africa second rows Bakkies Botha and Victor Matfield.

With Retallick returning from suspension, Scott Barrett has moved to the blindside flanker role.

There are positional changes to the back division that helped the All Blacks avoid a first defeat by Scotland with a 31-23 win at Murrayfield last weekend.

Beauden Barrett starts at fullback, with brother Jordie moving from the No 15 shirt to partner Riekko Ioane in the centres.

Aaron Smith returns at scrumhalf, with Richie Mo'unga at flyhalf.

Meanwhile, Farrell will become only the third English rugby player to reach a century of caps for his country when he leads out the team.

Scrumhalf Ben Youngs, who is on the bench, and retired prop Jason Leonard are the other two to have reached that landmark.

Farrell captains a starting line-up that sees coach Eddie Jones take the unusual step of naming two No 8s, Sam Simmonds and Billy Vunipola in his back-row.

Jones's hope is this will give the team greater ball-carrying options.

Simmonds and Vunipola were first paired together towards the end of last Saturday's 52-13 rout of

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