The British & Irish Lions have committed to touring South Africa this summer after presenting an ultimatum to the world champions to put on the event as planned or wait until 2025. The eight-match tour, which culminates in three Tests against the Springboks, is set to be played behind closed doors in July and August after the Lions ran out of contingency plans. SponsoredRugby Australia’s invitation to stage the tour and the prospect of postponing the series until 2022 were both rejected by the Lions board. A series in the British Isles was explored in depth but the Lions decided last week that they had “run out of runway” because of the logistics and expense required to put on a big event this summer that

Source: The Times March 23, 2021 17:03 UTC