'The most ridiculous decision in my lifetime of rugby' - Lions selection denounced 

Luke Cowan-Dickie was knocked unconscious in Premiership final but the hooker is on the bench for opening tour match in South Africa.

Lions' Luke Cowan-Dickie

Progressive Rugby, the lobby group of former players, coaches and medics for a safer game, has condemned the selection of Luke Cowan-Dickie on the bench for the British & Irish Lions’ opening tour match in Johannesburg this evening, a week after the Exeter hooker was knocked out in the Premiership final.

Kyran Bracken, who is leading talks between Progressive Rugby and World Rugby, the game’s governing body, described the selection in a tweet as “the most ridiculous decision in my lifetime of rugby”.