ROSS Adair, acknowledged in this column last week as the first ex-rugby professional to play international cricket, rose so magnificently to the occasion that his 58-ball century laid the foundations of Ireland’s ten-run, T-20 win over South Africa.
Adair’s heroics make no difference to the fact that, post-war, only two rugby internationals have made centuries in Test cricket. Martin Donnelly was the first, 206 for New Zealand at Lord’s in 1949 two years after the Kiwi, then at Oxford University, made his first and last appearance in Test rugby, for England agains...