[FAST FACT]

BUNCE IN HIS STEP Frank Bunce is very much the odd man out on this list – he is the only back. The rest, unsurprisingly, are tight forwards but somehow Bunce defied the odds and continued to carve up in the midfield when he was pushing 36. In fact, many would say that Bunce played his best rugby only after he turned 30 and that his best season as an All Black was his last, in 1997 when he scored a couple of hugely memorable tries.