The Wallabies will do anything and everything to rattle rookie All Black playmaker Tom Taylor in his Test debut on Saturday night for a Bledisloe Cup equaliser.

A bolter at five-eighth for the second trans-Tasman clash, Taylor has played just one pre-season game at No.10 this year but has the huge responsibility to lead New Zealand around Wellington’s Westpac Stadium.

Taylor is effectively the All Blacks’ fourth-choice five-eighth after Dan Carter was ruled out ahead of the 47-29 win in Sydney and Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett injured themselves during it.

It is the 24-year-old’s 90 per cent goalkicking strike rate which thrust him into the playmaking hot seat ahead of Colin Slade after specialising at inside centre for the Crusaders in Super Rugby.

The spotlight is well and truly on Taylor, the son of 1987 World Cup-winning centre Warwick, and the Australians have predicted a baptism of fire.

Vice-captain Will Genia felt Taylor deserved his surprise call-up but the Wallabies would do everything and anything they could to unsettle him and trigger a shaky All Blacks display.

“There’s no doubt about it; we have to,” Genia said.

“He has only played 12 (this year) so, from our point of view, we want to put as much pressure on him as we can and see how he deals with it.

“We’ll see how he copes with the decision making and with controlling their game.”

All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw, a teammate at the Crusaders, confidently tipped an assured performance.

“At the end of the day, he’s in the No.10 spot and he has to control things,” McCaw said.

“I know, in my experience at the Crusaders, he’s got the ability to do that.”

Renowned for his composure, Taylor says he aims to guide the team in word and in deed.

“As a 10, you need to tell people what to do,” he said. “But I also like to think I lead by my actions as well.”

It’s a sign of New Zealand’s immense depth that they can be without their three best five-eighths but still be strong favourites to clinch the Bledisloe Cup for an 11th straight year.

Wallabies skipper James Horwill harked back to the 2011 World Cup, when the All Blacks were missing Carter and Slade before Cruden was also injured early in the final, but still beat France with Stephen Donald landing the match-winning penalty.

“That’s a perfect example,” Horwill said. “(New Zealand) were down to the fourth or fifth five-eighth and they still won the World Cup.”