Former All Blacks wing great Stu Wilson has died at the age of 70 .
Wilson was regarded as one of the world’s finest attacking players during his heyday with the All Blacks in the early 1980s, finishing his career with 19 test tries – a record for the All Blacks at the time.
The blond-haired flyer played 85 matches for New Zealand, including 34 tests, while his first-class career comprised 199 first-class games, mostly built up during nine years of service on the right wing for Wellington.
He forged a lethal combination with fellow Wellington and test winger Bernie Fraser, and the pair went on to co-write a book Ebony and Ivory, which was published in 1984.
Wilson signed off on his All Blacks career a year before that, when he was captain of the tour squad that played tests against England and Scotland in the UK. He was captain in all eight matches on that tour.
He went on to become a radio and television commentator, known for injecting humour into his match analysis.
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