Van Der Merwe Scores Hat-trick In Eight-try Lions Win

6 days ago

BBC Sport astatine Adelaide Oval

Invitational AU & NZ (0) 0

British and Irish Lions (17) 48

Tries: Van der Merwe 3, White, Tuipulotu,Cummings, Kelleher, Pollock Cons: F Smith 2 M Smith 2

Duhan van der Merwe scored a hat-trick arsenic nan British and Irish Lions ran successful 8 tries successful a rout of nan AUNZ Invitational XV successful their past crippled earlier nan first Test against nan Wallabies adjacent weekend.

On an eventful nighttime successful Adelaide Owen Farrell came connected arsenic a second-half substitute, pinch news besides emerging of a suspected caput wounded to Garry Ringrose, putting him successful threat of missing nan lucifer successful Brisbane connected Saturday.

Van der Merwe scored 2 of his 3 tries successful nan opening half pinch Ben White sniping for another. In nan 2nd half, which was one-way postulation against an Invitational broadside taken to nan cleaners, Sione Tuipulotu, Scott Cummings and Van der Merwe made it six tries - pinch each six coming from Scottish players.

As nan Lions turned up nan heat, Ireland's Ronan Kelleher added a seventh and England's Henry Pollock an eighth, a first of nan circuit for nan Northampton tyro.

A downside for nan Lions, however, was nan knee to nan caput suffered by Luke Cowan Dickie, which saw him taken disconnected connected a stretcher conscionable earlier nan break.

Line-ups

AUNZ XV: Stevenson; Lam, Laumape, Havili (co-capt), Koroibete; Edmed, Fakatava; Ross, Paenga-Amosa, Toomaga-Allen, Salakaia-Loto (co-capt), Blyth, Frizell, Samu, Sotutu.

Replacements: Eklund, Fusitu'a, Dyer, Philip, Brial, Thomas, McLaughlin-Phillips, Campbell.

British and Irish Lions: Keenan; Hansen, Jones, Tuipulotu, Van der Merwe; F Smith, White; Schoeman, Cowan-Dickie, Stuart, Ryan, Beirne (capt), Pollock, Morgan, Earl.

Replacements; Kelleher, Porter, Bealham, Cummings, Van der Flier, Mitchell, M Smith, Farrell.