Lions Tour

HIGHLIGHTS: Sharks v British & Irish Lions

  Watch all the highlights of a pulsating match between the Lions and the Cell C Sharks for the second time on the 2021 Lions Tour.  

Conor Murray: On Being Captain

Mother City welcomes Lions Series

The Springboks and the British & Irish Lions arrived in Cape Town on Sunday for the eagerly awaited second stage of the Castle Lager Lions Series.       The Springboks took up residence...

Conor Murray to lead B&I Lions against South Africa 'A'

The British & Irish Lions Head Coach, Warren Gatland, has named his team to play South Africa ‘A’ at Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday 14 July (kick off 7pm BST). Tour captain Conor...

Disruptions bringing Lions closer together

An upside of one of the most disrupted British & Irish Lions tours in history is that all the complications appear to be galvanising the team.    The squad heads to Cape Town this weekend...

Sir Ian McGeechan's latest Lions XV

Sir Ian McGeechan has picked the British & Irish Lions team he thinks should take the field against the World Champion Springboks in the upcoming three test series.    On Saturday evening,...

Springboks return to training

The Springboks will resume training on Sunday in preparation for the Castle Lager Lions Series after six rounds of COVID-19 testing and a six-day preventative self-isolation period cleared a large group...

6 more Springboks test positive for Covid

Covid-19 is tearing through the Springbok camp with another 6 players and 2 management staff returning positive tests.    One of the players is captain Siya Kolisi, according to a report...

Sharks coach on Hendrikse's red card

Many eyebrows were raised at half-time in the Sharks vs Lions match on Saturday evening when the teams jogged off the pitch with the score at 26-all.    Just a few days previously, the lions...

Sharks 31-71 British and Irish Lions: Tourists capitalise on Hendrikse red card

The British and Irish Lions continued to pile on the points on their tour of South Africa with what proved to be an emphatic, albeit not entirely convincing, 71-31 win over the Sharks. There was...