Kenny Campbell

New Zealand Rugby has rekindled the historic North Island versus South Island match as uncertainty remains over the sport's coronavirus-affected international calendar. North vs South Rugby live

All Blacks assistant coach Brad Mooar said the match would take place at Auckland's Eden Park on August 29.

"It's a real legacy game, first played in 1897 and then consistently almost every year apart from the war years until 1986," he said in remarks published on the All Blacks official website.

Mooar and All Blacks scrum coach Greg Feek will take charge of the South Island, with Hurricanes coach John Plumtree and All Blacks defence coach Scott McLeod mentoring the North. North vs South Rugby stream

The inter-island fixture was once one of the most anticipated and bitterly contested matches in the New Zealand rugby calendar but fell out of favour in the professional era.