Hastings: O’Driscoll should keep Lions captaincy

GAVIN HASTINGS yesterday urged Lions selectors to retain Brian O’Driscoll as skipper for next summer’s tour to South Africa.

Wales back row Ryan Jones is favourite to land a position that has few other standout out candidates besides O’Driscoll, who led the tour to New Zealand three years ago.

But Scotland legend Hastings, a veteran of two Lions tours, believes the 29-year-old Ireland centres commands the necessary respect to get the nod.