Lions Won't Be Bowled over by History at the MCG

Lions won't be bowled over by history at the MCG

The MCG will look a lot different this week, as the Wallabies and British and Irish Lions look to threaten the biggest ever crowd for a rugby game at Australia's most famous sporting venue, that being the 90,119 that watched Australia host New Zealand in 1997.

Lions braced for Wallabies backlash in bid to write own history at MCG

Any British and Irish Lions and Australia players in need of inspiration in the final moments before kick off in Saturday’s second Test need only glance up at the wall in front of them. While the dressing rooms of one of the world’s great sporting colosseums will be bedecked in the iconography of both sides as they make the Melbourne Cricket Ground their temporary home, still adorning each will be the carved wooden honours boards that list the i…

I'm about to take on 6ft 8in giant who weighs 23 stone in front of record crowd

British & Irish Lions lock Ollie Chessum is facing one of rugby’s most intimidating individual challenges on Saturday. The Leicester Tigers star has the unenviable task of stopping the monstrous frame of La Rochelle’s Will Skelton in the second Test against Australia in Melbourne. GettyMan mountain Will Skelton is back for Australia for the second Lions Test[/caption] Skelton, who stands at a whopping 6ft 8in and weighs 23 stones, was missing fr…

'Statement selection' has Ollie Chessum worried ahead of pivotal 2nd Lions Test

Victory in Saturday’s second Test at the MCG would clinch a series victory for the British and Irish Lions over Australia.