By Gary Watton
June 18 2013

England's Try Scoring Lions checked out by our resident 'Blogger' Gary

ENGLAND'S TRY-SCORING LIONS SINCE 1962

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, being a bit of an anorak on such matters, I browsed through the archives to find out which English rugby warriors had recorded tries in British Lions test matches over
the last fifty years. I have also compiled amongst the enclosed list the handful of individuals who also contributed drop goals too. [I have omitted those who converted penalties and conversions, but do
feel free to scan through the history books to get the information on that too.]

Of course let us not be naive enough to think that just because an individual happened to be in the right place at the right time to score a try that he played well. Moreover, there are many English Lions players not mentioned here who probably played very well on various occasions but who just didn't have the good fortune to be on the end of a try. This after all is a record of those who grabbed a bit of glory for themselves and for British rugby. Right then, here we go. Each person underneath scored one try, unless otherwise stated.

2009 v South Africa
1st test: Tom Croft (2 tries); the Lions lost 26-21
3rd test: Ugo Monye; the Lions won 28-9

2005 v New Zealand
3rd test: Lewis Moody; the Lions lost 38-19

2001 v Australia
1st test: Jason Robinson; the Lions won 29-13
2nd test: Neil Back; the Lions lost 35-14
3rd test: Jason Robinson; Jonny Wilkinson [drop goal]; the Lions lost 29-23

1997 v South Africa
1st test: Matt Dawson; the Lions won 25-16
2nd test: Jeremy Guscott [drop goal]; the Lions won 18-15
3rd test: Matt Dawson; the Lions lost 35-16

1993 v New Zealand
2nd test: Rory Underwood; Rob Andrew [drop goal]; the Lions 20-7

1989 v Australia
2nd test: Jeremy Guscott; Rob Andrew [drop goal]; the Lions won 19-12

1974 v South Africa
3rd test: Roger Uttley; the Lions won

1971 v New Zealand
4th test: Peter Dixon; the Lions drew 14-14

1966 v New Zealand
4th test: Colin McFadyean; the Lions lost 24-11

1962 v South Africa
3rd test: Richard Sharp [drop goal]; the Lions lost 8-3

Gary Watton; author and sport statistician [see http://sporthistorian.blog.com]