Hartley in starting XV for prolific non-Lion Test stars

Dylan Hartley

DYLAN Hartley’s fate has prompted his late inclusion into a team he would rather not be part of, the one reserved for the mostcapped players not to have made it into a Lions’ Test team.
England’s captain replaces Rory Best as hooker although the alteration will be reversed should Hartley’s more experienced Irish counterpart fail to appear against New Zealand this summer as he did against Australia four years ago. Ironically, Best made that trip only because Hartley’s red card in the Premiership Grand Final left him in a not unusual state of sus...

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