MELBOURNE :Australia's most-capped test player James Slipper will retire from international rugby following Saturday's game against New Zealand, bringing the curtain down on a record-breaking 16-year career.

The 36-year-old prop earned his 150th cap last week in Auckland, becoming only the third player in test rugby history to reach the milestone after Wales' Alun Wyn Jones (171) and New Zealand’s Sam Whitelock (153).

Slipper will end his Wallabies career where it began – in Perth – having made his debut off the bench as a 21-year-old against England in 2010.

"Representing the Wallabies has been the single proudest achievement of my rugby career and a privilege I have never taken for granted," he said in a Rugby Australia statement on Wednesday.

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