‘Fresh’ Wilkinson up for Lions challenge

Mike Sinclair

Wilkinson yesterday acknowledged that being the drop-goal hero of England's 2003 World Cup final triumph does not give him a divine right to a starting place in the Lions Test team for the New Zealand tour.

"It wouldn't sit easily with me to think that I'm there because 18 months ago England won the World Cup and I was the one who kicked the last ball over," he said.