15. Agustín Pichot (Argentina)
14. John Smit (South Africa)
13. Paul O’Connell (Ireland)
12. Sean Fitzpatrick (New Zealand)
11. Sam Warburton (Wales)
10. Brian O’Driscoll (Ireland)
9. Sarah Hunter (England)
8. Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)
Alun Wyn Jones facts:
- He is the first player in the professional era to have played in nine consecutive Tests for the Lions having been involved in all three series
- Alun Wyn Jones has a law degree from Swansea University and he graduated in 2010
- nothing. Second rows wearing white rugby boots was quite unusual. That’s how he got the nickname Alun Gwyn Boots
- His father, Tim Jones, was a respected solicitor who also played rugby for Swansea, and his funeral in 2016 drew hundreds from the legal and rugby worlds. One of life’s true characters.
- Wife of the Lions captain and mum to their two daughters Mali and Efa, Anwen, who is a doctor of physiology, is a Welsh-speaking physiology lecturer at Cardiff’s Metropolitan University.
7. Thierry Dusautoir (France)