The second Test of the Lions’ tour to South Africa. A draw means the Lions cannot win the series. “We had to win to keep the thing alive,” says Heaslip now. I would have loved a series win but that’s what he was going after.”And yet, despite winning a Grand Slam in a season he describes as the best of his sporting life, Bowe reckons that summer series, despite its ultimate failure, represented for him the “best rugby experience of my life”. Bowe was selected for two tours of duty, and enjoyed a series win in Australia four years later, but still firmly reckons that 2009 represented something uniquely special.

Source: Irish Independent July 12, 2021 01:39 UTC