HAS rugby ever had an equivalent of Luke Littler, below, the youthful prodigy, who won the World Darts championship last week aged 17 years and 342 days?
The short answer is yes, both in terms of age and the impact with Scotland leading the way.
The youngest Test player I can find listed is Edinburgh Academy schoolboy Ninlan Fin- lay who made his Scotland debut in 1875 at the age of 17 years and 36 days.
Sharing that record, sort of, was another Academy school-boyCharles Reid who was first capped in 1881 also aged 17 years and 36 days except he had lived through an extra leap year d...
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