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| Birth name | Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 April 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Newington College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Sydney University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones AM (born 18 April 1962) is a former Australian rugby union player, who played as a scrum-half. He debuted for the Australia national team during the 1984 tour of Britain and Ireland. Farr-Jones was named "Player of the Series" for the 1986 tour of New Zealand, where Australia became the sixth team to win a test series there. He was appointed captain of the Wallabies in 1988 and is best known for leading the team to victory in the 1991 Rugby World Cup. Farr-Jones retired from international rugby in 1992 but briefly returned in 1993 for the Bledisloe Cup and a series against South Africa. He has since appeared as a rugby commentator on Sky Sports and serves as chairman of the New South Wales Rugby Union.