There are two flankers in a rugby union team. The blind-side flanker supports the left side of the scrum and the open-side ...

A ll Blacks boss Scott Robertson admits that Cortez Ratima is “pretty sore” after the scrum-half was forced off in the first ...

Follow live coverage with text and score updates as Australia open their campaign against Samoa at Salford Community Stadium ...

As England kicked off their Women's Rugby World Cup tournament with a 69-7 win over the United States, players and grassroots ...

The scrum half and fly half, No. 9 and No. 10 or, if you're a New Zealander, a first five-eighth. The half-backs provide the brains to the brawn smashing lumps out of each other all around them.

Few players embody South African rugby quite like Joost van der Westhuizen. The scrum-half had all the skills but combined them with an almost pathological refusal to be dominated on the rugby field.

Man-of-the-match Jamison Gibson-Park and fly-half Finn Russell pulled the strings of the Lions' 36-24 win over the Brumbies, with classy cameos from Garry Ringrose, Dan Sheehan, Tadhg Furlong ...

Wales struggled because scrum-half is a key role and the selectors were not allowing one player to bed in. Kieran Hardy was first choice for the summer tour of South Africa and he did well, but ...

Former England scrum-half Danny Care has announced his retirement from rugby after amassing 101 Test caps and a record 394 appearances for Harlequins. The 38-year-old, who called time on his ...

Treviso scrum-half Callum Braley on Wednesday announced his retirement from international rugby to focus more on his family and club rugby with Northampton, with whom he links up in the summer.

The decision to take only two specialist scrum-halves to the Rugby World Cup in Japan could come back to haunt England, former coach Clive Woodward has said.