The All Blacks will not be the only New Zealand side playing in England this month.
A New Zealand Universities under-23 development team will play in the inaugural World Universities club tournament in Oxford.
The New Zealand team will involve four players from the University club in Dunedin: forwards Angus Williams, Hamish Walker and Angus Cameron, and back Kieran Parker.
University club director of coaching Brendon Timmins is the forwards coach for the team.
Timmins was head coach for the New Zealand Universities team which travelled to Japan earlier this season.
The tournament will involve university sides from around the world and will be all over in a week.
Two other Otago University players were set to make the trip, prop Callum Hardie and midfield back Shae Tucker, but injuries have robbed them of the chance to head away.
Each player had to provide $5500 for the trip and players have been picked from all universities across the country.
Hardie was forced out of the team because of a torn quad muscle while Tucker has broken a bone in his hand.
The New Zealand side is in the same pool as Trinity College, Dublin, the University of British Columbia and the Siberian Federal University.
Other teams competing are Oxford, Waseda, from Japan, Stanford, Sydney and Cape Town.
The games are just 20-minute halves and the New Zealand team has two games first up against British Columbia and Siberian Federal University on September 15.
That is followed three days later by a game against Trinity College, Dublin.
The final games will be played on September 20-21 and the side will return to New Zealand on September 22.
It is hoped the tournament will be staged every four years, in the same country as the World Cup is played.
The next World Cup is scheduled for Japan in 2019.
