Flanker Nick Champion de Crespigny was handed a shock debut Thursday by Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt for the opening British and Irish Lions Test in Brisbane, with young fly-half Tom Lynagh another ...

Tom Lynagh will start at flyhalf for Australia against the Lions in the series-opening test on Saturday, 36 years after his ...

Like brother Louis, the Italy wing, Tom was born near Treviso, where their father had spent five years as a player and met their mother, Isabella. The family soon relocated to England, where the elder ...

Heavyweight lock Will Skelton is also missing for the Wallabies, meaning they have been shorn of two of their biggest, most powerful players for this opening Test. An injury to th ...