Ofisa Francis Junior Tonu'u (born 3 February 1970) is a New Zealand former

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player and Samoa cricketer. A halfback, Tonu'u represented

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and

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at a provincial level and the and in

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Building on various Southern Hem ...

. Of Samoan parentage, Tonu'u played 14 matches including five tests for

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

in 1992 and 1993. He was later a member of the New Zealand national side, the

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, from 1996 to 1998. He played eight matches for the All Blacks including five internationals.

Cricket

In 2013, he was a member of the Auckland Cricket Society Premier Men's Cricket team. He still plays for Auckland Cricket Society in annual fixtures. In July 2019, at the age of 49, he represented the

Samoa national cricket team The Samoan national cricket team is the men's team that represents Samoa in international cricket. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2000. They competed in the Pacifica Championship in 2001 and 2002, ...

in the men's tournament at the

2019 Pacific Games The 2019 Pacific Games was the sixteenth edition of the Pacific Games. The Games were held in Apia, Samoa, returning there for the first time since 2007. It was the third time overall that the Pacific Games were held in Samoa. The event was init ...

. He made his

Twenty20 International A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...

(T20I) debut against

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

on 8 July 2019.

References

1970 births Living people Rugby union players from Wellington City New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent People educated at Rongotai College New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand international rugby union players Wellington rugby union players Auckland rugby union players Blues (Super Rugby) players Hurricanes (rugby union) players London Irish players Newport RFC players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Wales Expatriate rugby union players in England Expatriate rugby union players in Wales Rugby union scrum-halves Samoa international rugby sevens players Samoan cricketers Samoa Twenty20 International cricketers {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1970s-stub