Mitchell's announcement comes just days after England's Premiership clubs stated they will refuse to release their players for the match, scheduled to take place at twickenham on 30 November.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) hopes to use the tie to raise money for developing unions worldwide.

But the International Rugby Players Association, a body representing players in England, France and the three major southern hemisphere nations, is against the fixture because of an already congested calendar.

And while the unions support the match in principal, they are against it in practice until a suitable date and format can be found to ease fixture congestion.

The match will clash with a round of England's Zurich Premiership and comes at the end of a busy spell of autumn internationals for the home unions and big three southern hemsiphere sides on tour.

Mitchell, who has the backing of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, said: "I will recommend to my players that they should not get involved."

Meanwhile, Premier Rugby, who represent England's 12 top-flight clubs, said in a statement: "November 30 is outside of the agreed international release window and therefore our policy will be not to release any Premiership players for this match.

"Our position remains that we do not see the merit in such a game being played on a fourth successive weekend of international rugby at such a crucial stage in the Premiership campaign."

In contrast Mike Miller, chief executive of the IRB, was earlier delighted to have finally secured a date and venue for the first of what is set to become a bi-annual event.

"There is tremendous enthusiasm for the fixture and substantial commercial interest.

"It promises to raise a great deal of money for those rugby countries in need, and will demonstrate once again the community spirit that underpins the game."

Premier Rugby backed the idea of promoting rugby development worldwide but questioned the method.

"Whilst the money raised from the match will be spent on an undeniably laudable cause, we believe there are other methods that could be employed to raise funds other than this additional fixture," said the statement.