Krisnan Inu
Inu (left) in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Krisnan Nevada Inu
Nickname	Smiling Assassin, Kris
Born	17 March 1987 (1987-03-17) (age 22)
	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
Playing information
Position	Centre, Wing, Fullback
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2007–	Parramatta Eels	51	25	57	0	214
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2007–	New Zealand	4	0	9	0	18
As of 1 November, 2008
Source: NRL Stats

Krisnan Nevada Inu (born 17 March 1987) is a New Zealand professional rugby league player for the Parramatta Eels in the Australian National Rugby League competition. Inu,is a member of the World Cup winning New Zealand team beating Australia in the 2008 World Cup Final at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

Inu made his international debut for New Zealand on Friday, 20 April for the 2007 Anzac Test against Australia at Brisbane, as a replacement for the unavailable Brent Webb after playing only one 1st Grade match in Round 4 against the Canberra Raiders. In the match he made some incredible kick returns from the like of Darren Lockyer and Jonathan Thurston.

After the test, Inu was dropped back to Premier League but returned to first grade through a series of injuries to regular players. Inu took on the kicking duties as Parramatta's primary kicker and full-back, Luke Burt, was injured mid-season.

Inu's successful season was recognised when he was nominated for Rookie of the Year at the 2007 Dally M awards but was beaten by Melbourne Storm centre Israel Folau.

Inu is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is also a childhood friend of Jarryd Hayne and Israel Folau. All three of these players grew up together in the suburb of Minto in Western Sydney and were at one stage part of the same rugby team. For religious reasons, Inu is a non-drinker.

In 2007, along with Hayne, Inu was the Eels top try-scorer.

In August 2008, Inu was named in the New Zealand training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,^[1] and in October 2008, he was named in the final 24-man Kiwi squad.^[2]

After a 2-4 start to the season, the Eels decided to re-tool their line-up, dropping Inu to the New South Wales Cup, with Taulima Tautai replacing him for the Round 7 match against the Brisbane Broncos.^[3]

Inu returned to first grade from Round 10 onwards.

In August 2009 Inu was named in the 45 man New Zealand Squad.

Due to the Parramatta Clubs poor form in early 2009, Krisnan's own form was unusually quite and he was told to "get more aggressive" by the Parramatta coaching staff. In the Eels late season comeback to be labbled as finals contenders after winning 6 in a row, Krisnan topped off a return to form in his best game of the season (against the Wests Tigers in round 24) by scoring a try, 2 line breaks, a try assist, 3 offloads and he also took care of the goal kicking duties scoring 5 from 5 attempts after Luke Burt was injured while scoring a try.

In Parramatta's much anticipated Grand Final Qualifier against arch-rivals Canterbury Bulldogs Inu guided his team to victory with a number of terrorising runs on the Bulldogs defense that usually resulted in clean breaks or tries.

[edit] Point Scoring Summary - Parramatta Eels

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Parramatta Eels profile