This is a prop’s infancy and it still comes as a shock to be reminded that it is only two years since Mako Vunipola, above, joined Saracens and eight months since he first played for England.
He has started all of one Test match.
So with the curse of the Lions loose heads having claimed Alex Corbisiero from this match as well as Cian Healy and Gethin Jenkins from the tour, it falls to Vunipola to confront the 50-cap Wallaby Ben Alexander.
It hardly looks an even contest. Not when the Lions scrum was reduced to such disarray that Kurtley Beale had his penalty to win it after Vunipola, Richard Hibbard and Dan Cole had taken the field.
“The boys who went on, we all felt disappointed with how the scrums went and we knew the penalty they had at the end was our fault,†said Vunipola.
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Mako Vunipola grabs chance to make a dream start
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