The British and Irish Lions have named Conor Murray to captain the team from the get-go on Wednesday when the Lions take on South Africa \u2018A\u2019 in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
In other news, Warren Gatland has made 12 changes to his starting XV, with Chris Harris at the centre, Dan Biggar at 10, and Anthony Watson, who moves from wing to full-back, keeping their places from Saturday\u2019s 71-31 win over the Sharks.<\/p>\n
Stuart Hogg and Liam Williams have so far started in the full-back slot, while Josh Adams was used as an auxiliary 15 against the Sharks in the first of two matches on tour.<\/p>\n
In the wings, Louis Rees-Zammit and Josh Adams will continue to look to add to the Lions\u2019 two and eight tries so far, respectively, while Ireland\u2019s Bundee Aki and Scotland\u2019s Harris have been brought in at 12 and 13 in midfield, respectively.<\/p>\n
Due to a hamstring injury, Ireland\u2019s Robbie Henshaw remains absent from the tour. He was considered the team\u2019s form centre and was expected to play in the Test match.\u00a0It is now most people\u2019s predicted Test pairing that Murray teams up with Wales\u2019 Biggar at half-back, while Wales\u2019 loosehead Wyn Jones, Wales\u2019 hooker Ken Owens and England\u2019s tighthead Kyle Sinckler complete the front row.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to have arrived in Cape Town as we near the halfway stage of the Series,\u201d Warren Gatland told Sky Sports on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Munster and Ireland scrum-half Conor Murray was named to captain the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":23330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2137,1042,334,1122,2259,254,1888],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-british-and-irish-lions","tag-cape-town","tag-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-sharks","tag-south-africa","tag-wales"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}