The Highlanders' Vilimoni Koroi will join Clarke and Nanai-Seturo as Super Rugby players in the team, who will be unveiled at the sevens' Mount Maunganui base on Monday, although Koroi has been with the sevens programme since the start of the season.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes coach Jason Holland this week revealed his winger, Salesi Rayasi, was sticking with 15s for Super Rugby Trans-Tasman.<\/p>\n
The only place rugby fans can watch every match is Stan Sport. Start your free sport trial now!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Any Super Rugby players considered have been with the sevens programme before, but Clarke's return is the most compelling.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old was a revelation for the Blues and the All Blacks once rugby resumed after its hiatus last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. He played five tests after his All Blacks debut in October and was electric.<\/p>\n Before Covid-19, though, the Auckland prodigy was a key member of the Kiwi team on the World Sevens Series. He made his international sevens debut in Sydney in January 2018.<\/p>\n Clarke played in their last international sevens event in Vancouver last March, which they won before the pandemic shredded the sporting calendar.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Reformed rugby star's emotional 'lie' confession<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Superstar casualties in bombshell Lions squad<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Wallabies to play midweek Tests against France<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Despite Clarke's underwhelming form for the Blues in their uninspiring Aotearoa campaign this year, his inclusion is a major boost for men's sevens coach Clark Laidlaw.<\/p>\n Seeking their first Olympic medal after a disappointing fifth-placed finish at the 2016 Rio Games, the Kiwi men return to international sevens for the first time in 14 months against Australia in an Olympic warm-up tournament in Auckland on May 21-23.<\/p>\n Laidlaw picked an 18-year-old Clarke for New Zealand's successful Commonwealth Games campaign on the Gold Coast in 2018, although emergency appendix surgery ruled him out before the tournament.<\/p>\n Clarke, injuries and Covid-19 permitting, will be chasing gold in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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