Alun Wyn Jones injury update: Wales captain departs on 18 minutes

UPDATE: RUCK Sources have confirmed that the Wales skipper, who was making his 149th appearance for his country, has indeed suffered the same injury once again. More news on this as we get it.

The shoulder is the same one he dislocated while on Lions duty against Japan in a warm-up match back in June.

Jones famously put in a Herculean effort to complete a remarkable recovery in time to belatedly join up with Warren Gatland's Lions for the 2021 tour of South Africa.

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 161 caps to his name, of which 149 have come for Wales and 12 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.