Alun Wyn Jones facts: Five things you didn't know about him

Since making his debut in 2006, he has won three Grand Slams, a further two Six Nations titles, and is on his fourth Lions Tour.

Here are five Alun Wyn Jones facts you might not have known about Lions skipper...

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.
With 157 caps to his name, of which 148 have come for Wales and nine for the Lions, he is also the most capped player in the history of international rugby. 

Alun Wyn Jones has a law degree from Swansea University and he graduated in 2010.

In his youth, apart from having long hair, he had a pair of white rugby boots on, at a time when it was black or 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.