Cutting a dash: James Lowe in action for Leinster
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NOBODY in recent seasons has cut a deeper swathe through one of the game’s more hazardous climbs than James Lowe. Against the Bears of Bristol at Ashton Gate this evening, he will start his eighth Champions Cup campaign since switching allegiance from the Chiefs and the New Zealand Maori to Leinster and Ireland.
In that time he has gone from nowhere into the all-time top ten, his presence there ensuring an Irish majority in the company of Simon Zebo (35), Brian O’Driscoll (33), Tommy Bowe (29), Shane H...