Richie Mo'unga has re-signed for New Zealand Rugby until at least 2023

Richie Mo'unga has signed a new deal for New Zealand until next year's World Cup in France.

The 28-year-old has also re-committed to the Crusaders and Canterbury. 

The 27-year-old made his New Zealand debut in 2018 against France and has gone on to feature for them 32 times. He also played five World Cup games for the All Blacks during the 2019 World Cup campaign that ended with a semi-final defeat to England.

 Mo'unga made his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders in 2016, and after a chain of favourable performances, the rising star was re-signed with the club through to the end of the 2019 Super Rugby season, having made 16 Super Rugby appearances scoring 179 points.

He established himself as one of the premier flyhalves in Super Rugby competition during the 2017 Super Rugby season as he guided the Crusaders to their 8th Super Rugby title. He made 13 appearances scoring 133 points and started the Crusaders match against the British and Irish Lions.

The news of Mo'unga extending his stay with New Zealand has been a boost for Ian Foster's men with Beauden Barrett also having a contract until the next year's World Cup in France.

After guiding the Crusaders to the Super Rugby title in 2017 and Canterbury to second place in the round-robin stages of the Mitre 10 Cup Mo'unga earned his first call up to the All Blacks squad for their final Bledisloe Test against the Wallabies.