Frank Halai
Birth name | Frank Halai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 6 March 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pangai, Tonga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 115 kg (18 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Wesley College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frank Halai (born 6 March 1988) is a rugby union footballer who plays as a wing. He represents Wasps RFC in the English Premiership, having moved there before the 2015/2016 season from the Blues in Super Rugby.[1][2] He previously played for Counties Manukau[3] in the ITM Cup, and before that Waikato. Halai is a former All Black Sevens and All Black representative, having played one test match in 2013.[4]
Halai made his Super Rugby debut in Round 1 of the 2013 season when he started on the wing and played all 80 minutes of a 34-20 win over the Hurricanes in Wellington, scoring a try in the process. He ended the season as the Super Rugby leading try scorer with 10,[citation needed] and was third in line breaks with 21, behind his Blues team mates Rene Ranger and Charles Piutau who had 24 each.
Notes
- ^ "Willison to fill Nonu void". rugby365. 28 October 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
- ^ "Frank Halai Player Profile". Blues. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- ^ "Frank Halai Counties Manukau Player Profile". New Zealand: CMRFU. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
- ^ "Halai all fine by Tietjens". NZ Herald. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
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- Tongan emigrants to New Zealand
- Tongan rugby union players
- 1988 births
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Rugby union wings
- Blues (Super Rugby) players
- Counties Manukau Steelers players
- Waikato Rugby Union players
- New Zealand international rugby sevens players
- Wasps RFC players
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players
- New Zealand expatriates in France
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- People from Haʻapai