The Top 14 may be renowned more for the levels of physicality on show than the finesse but Jonathan Sexton believes Simon Zebo is the type of player who can stand apart from all that blood and the guts and sheer drudgery.

Stats can get a bad rap but there comes a time every now and again when one stands out like an orange in an apple orchard and Simon Zebo’s try-scoring record in the Six Nations is the perfect example of just such an oddity.