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These men are the pride of All the Lions for last 20 years

Chris Hewett picks, position by position, the best Lions XV from the professional era

The idea of rugby selection as an art rather than a science is in steep decline: if you require proof, cast an eye over the legions of numbers men in the game, with their “Moneyball”-style sabermetric spreadsheets and their differential equations designed to calculate the effect of a player’s inside leg measurement on his ability to breach the offside line without being spotted.
Happily, the British and Irish Lions continue to fly in the face of current orthodoxies by fielding Test sides chosen and prepare...

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