Rugby-Lions look to history, Wallabies to pride in series finale


  • Rugby
  • Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union - Australia v British and Irish Lions - Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia - July 26, 2025 British and Irish Lions' Bundee Aki in action James Ross/AAP Image via REUTERS/File Photo

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The British & Irish Lions have history on their minds as they head into Saturday's third and final clash with the Wallabies determined to sweep a test series for the first time in living memory.

No Lions team have even gone unbeaten in a test series since Willie John McBride's Invincibles in South Africa in 1974, when a controversial draw in the fourth match denied them the sweep.

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