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Chris Hewett: Andy Farrell not alone with his ‘home’ Lions selections

“There's an epidemic sweeping through the England team, but it isn’t catching.” Attributed to John Arlott (who else?), the exquisite one-liner sprang to mind as a flurry of butterfingered spillages helped India build their winning second innings total at The Oval last weekend.
On the other side of the world, meanwhile, there was something highly contagious about the British and Irish Lions and their selection policy: a condition best described as “rampant confirmation bias”.
Ireland claimed eight of the starting places for the first Test in Brisbane, with another three of their number on t...

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