Hosea Gear and Liam Messam will be the highest profile casualties when the All Blacks World Cup squad is named in Brisbane today.

It emerged last night that 45 test veteran Sitiveni Sivivatu could also find himself on the outer.

It is understood that Messam and Gear will be joined by prop Wyatt Crockett and lock Jarrad Hoeata as players who were with the All Blacks in South Africa but have not made the 30 man cut.

All Blacks face the Wallabies for the Tri-Nations decider in Brisbane at 10pm on Saturday.