Caleb Ralph

Caleb Ralph

Full name	Caleb Stan Ralph
Date of birth	10 September 1977 (1977-09-10)
Place of birth	Rotorua, New Zealand
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 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
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1996-1997 1998-2999 2000-2007	Bay of Plenty Auckland Canterbury	25 17 66
Super Rugby
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1997 1998-1999 2000-2009 2011-	Chiefs Blues Crusaders Reds	3 6 126	(290; 58 Tries)
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1998-	New Zealand New Zealand Māori	15 -	(45) (-)
correct as of 23 January 2007.
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
1996-	New Zealand

Medal record
Competitor for New Zealand
Men's Rugby
Commonwealth Games
Gold	1998 Kuala Lumpur	Rugby 7's

Caleb Stan Ralph (born 10 September 1977 in Rotorua, New Zealand) 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), Crusaders (2000–2008) and a cameo role with the Queensland Reds (2011). 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.

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 is second on the all-time list of Super Rugby try scorers, one try behind Doug Howlett. Ralph won the Canterbury Maori Trophy on 10 December 2005. Rumoured to have had a relationship with Zara Phillips. In 2008 he signed up to play with Japanese club Fukuoka Sanix Blues. In 2010 he signed with the Australian club Sunshine Coast Stingrays. The following year in the final round of the regular 2011 Super Rugby season, Queensland Reds coach Ewen McKenzie recruited Ralph on a short term contract to combat the side's injury crisis in the outside backs. If he takes the field in Round 18, he will equal George Gregan's record of 136 Super Rugby games.

External links

• Crusaders profile
• Caleb Ralph at AllBlacks.com