12:16 PM GMT Wales centre Jonathan Davies has been ruled out of the 2020 Six Nations after knee surgery for an injury sustained at the Rugby World Cup in Japan. Davies, 31, will not be part of the Wales side aiming to defend their Six Nations Grand Slam title, and the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU)

10:24 AM GMT Warren Gatland has said he did not throw his hat into the ring to replace All Blacks coach Steve Hansen as he wanted to honour his commitments to the Chiefs and British and Irish Lions. Gatland, who stepped down as Wales coach after guiding them to the World Cup semifinals, was on

8:14 AM GMT Beauden Barrett’s name was up in lights as usual when New Zealand’s Super Rugby teams unveiled their squads for 2020 but mystery still surrounds how much the Blues will see of the star playmaker. There was an air of predictability around the five squad announcements at an event in Auckland on Tuesday,

5:38 PM GMT Springboks captain Siya Kolisi has thanked South Africans from all walks of life for coming out in their hundreds of thousands to congratulate the team on winning the Rugby World Cup in the last week. The Springboks arrived home from Japan on Tuesday, and they have since visited Pretoria, Johannesburg, Soweto, Durban,

11:50 AM GMT South Africa loose-forward Francois Louw confirmed his retirement from international rugby on Sunday. In doing so, he became the second of the Springboks’ World Cup-winning side to call time on their career in the green and gold. Louw, who came off the bench for captain Siya Kolisi in the 32-12 victory over

10:05 AM GMT England will return to Japan for a two-Test series against the Rugby World Cup hosts in 2020, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) confirmed Friday. Eddie Jones’ squad will take on Japan in Oita on July 4 and in Kobe on July 11. England reached the World Cup final but suffered a 32-12

1:11 PM GMT The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) has been fined £70,000 after comments made by its representatives about the effect of Typhoon Hagibis at the World Cup in Japan were found to have constituted misconduct and “brought the game into disrepute”. The SRU has also been forced to issue a “meaningful” written apology to

6:03 PM GMT Exeter Chiefs coach Rob Baxter has said that if the decision to punish Premiership champions Saracens for breaching salary cap regulations was upheld, then their title triumphs in 2018 and 2019 were illegitimate. European and English champions Saracens were docked 35 points and fined £5.36 million by the Premiership Tuesday after being

2:21 PM GMT The distance between the little town of Despatch and the Zwide township in the Eastern Cape is just under 20 kilometres, but they may as well be worlds apart. Despatch is a largely conservative town made up of middle-class white, Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. Zwide, on the other hand, is a black township,

2:57 AM GMT Not content with Sonny Bill Williams, Toronto Wolfpack are set to lure more cross code stars to the newly promoted UK Super League outfit with NFL hopeful Valentine Holmes also reportedly in their sights. England rugby internationals Manu Tuilagi and Ben Te’o are believed to be next on the Wolfpack’s bold hit-list