KEY POINTS:
France coach Bernard Laporte has made four changes to his team to face the All Blacks in Saturday's second rugby test at Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Saturday night.
There are two new faces in the backs and two in the forwards from the starting team who lost the first test 11-42 at Eden Park in Auckland last Saturday.
Included among them are a pair of new caps -- Bougoin prop Olivier Surgens and Narbonne second five-eighth Lionel Mazars -- while Montpellier reserve loose forward Fulgence Ouedraogo is also uncapped.
Five members of the starting team and four players on the reserve bench all made their test debuts last week.
In the backs, Mazars replaces the injured Jean Phillipe Grandclaude while winger Julien Laharrague comes in for Benjamin Thiery.
Laharrague was named in last week's starting side but was dropped after showing up late for training.
Up front, Surgens comes in for Nicolas Mas while Damien Chouly, who made his debut off the reserve bench at Eden Park, takes the blindside flank berth off Gregory Le Corvec.
The team will again be captained by lock Pascal Pape, with veteran tour captain Raphael Ibanez named on the bench for the second time.
FRANCE:
Backs:
Thomas Castaignede, Julien Laharrague, Arnaud Mignardi, Lionel Mazars, Jean-Francois Coux, Benjamin Boyet, Nicolas Durand
Forwards:
Sebastien Chabal, Oliver Magne, Damien Chouly, Julien Pierre, Pascal Pape (captain), Olivier Surgens, Sebastien Bruno, Christian Califano.
Reserves:
Raphael Ibanez, Nicolas Mas, Olivier Olibeau, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Michael Forest, Nicolas Laharrague, Benjamin Thiery
- NZPA
