With six months to go to the start of the 2013 British & Irish Lions Tour to Australia and now the Autumn Internationals involving the four home nations have ended, former dual-code Wales International Jonathan Davies has predicted his starting XV for the first Test of The British & Irish Lions Tour to Australia in 2013.

Now an experienced rugby pundit Jonathan has put pen to paper and jotted down his starting line-up to face the Australians on 22nd June 2013.


The line-up which includes six Welsh players and six Irish players sees Brian O’Driscoll move to inside centre to accommodate Jonathan’s name sake, also from Wales, in the outside centre berth.

To see Jonathan’s starting line-up and the reasons for his selections please click here:




Jonathan Davies’ Lions starting XV to face The Wallabies in 2013:

1. Andrew Sheridan
2. Rory Best
3. Adam Jones
4. Alun Wyn Jones
5. Richie Gray
6. Dan Lydiate
7. Sam Warburton
8. Jamie Heaslip
9. Danny Care
10. Johnny Sexton
11. Tommy Bowe
12. Brian O’Driscoll
13. Jonathan Davies
14. George North
15. Rob Kearney