LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - England coach Steve Borthwick sprung a surprise when naming his Six Nations squad on Tuesday when he made lock Maro Itoje his new captain in place of Jamie George ...

It was a day that always felt destined to come. From the moment that Maro Itoje pulled on an England shirt in 2016, a 21-year-old lock looking right at home at Test level, it seemed virtually ...

Maro Itoje has been promoted to England captain for the Six Nations, replacing Saracens team-mate Jamie George in the role. Itoje, 30, led England to an age-grade world title in 2014 but only ...

Lessons from basketball icons and Patrick Vieira, valuable advice from his predecessor but no swearing; Maro Itoje certainly seems primed to skipper England in his own way. Ellis Genge ...

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"If we play our stuff, if we are the team we believe we can be, we can win," Itoje told BBC Sport. "There is not a team in this tournament that we can't beat." Itoje took over the role this week ...

Somehow, the notion of Maro Itoje bringing what one of his team-mates had described as the additional 'nastiness and bite' that was supposed to underpin this new England seemed a little far-fetched.

NEW England captain Maro Itoje has pleaded with Six Nations bosses not to sell out the soul of the game for cash. This season’s tournament marks the end of the current broadcasting deal with BBC ...

Maro Itoje is not your average rugby player. The newly-appointed England rugby captain is too smart for that. When we last spoke to him, he arrived at the Men’s Health shoot clutching a history ...

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