{"id":16823,"date":"2025-07-08T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/british-and-irish-lions-which-player-has-scored-the-most-points-in-history\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:37:35","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-which-player-has-scored-the-most-points-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/british-and-irish-lions-which-player-has-scored-the-most-points-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: Which player has scored the most points in history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Scotland full-back Andy Irvine holds the record for the most points scored in British and Irish Lions history.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irvine, who played in nine Tests between 1974 and 1980, scored a total of 281 points for the Lions across Test matches and tour games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irvine scored 156 points in 15 games during his first tour to South Africa 1974.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irvine was also part of the touring squads for the 1977 tour of New Zealand and the 1980 trip to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next highest on the list is Phil Bennett. The former Wales fly-half scored 236 points, with 44 of them in Test matches, during the 1974 and 1977 tours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Third on the list is former England full-back Bob Hiller who scored 214 points across the 1968 South Africa tour and the 1971 New Zealand tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c4gdmqn499zo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Scotland full-back Andy Irvine holds the record for the most points scored in British and Irish Lions history. Irvine, who played in nine Tests between 1974 and 1980, scored a total of 281 points for the Lions across Test matches and tour games. Irvine scored 156 points in 15 games during his first tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16825,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions\/16825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}