Tom and Ben Curry will become the first twins to play together in England’s men’s rugby team in the Six Nations match against Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. They are 26, look the same, sound the same, play for the same club and play in the same position. They live together too.
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David later became a headmaster and coached Tom and Ben at a local rugby club from the age of 4, but the twins also played soccer — they were both in the Manchester City academy, playing as a center-back pairing — and cricket to a county level. Tom has told the BBC he was “really good at indoor bowls,” getting the better of Ben.In their first organized rugby games as kids — in the sevens format — Ben played flyhalf and Tom was a center.
By 18, they’d ditched plans to go to university because they were playing in the first team for Sale. That was in the 2016-17 season, when they made their debuts in the same match.The twins were called up for the first time by England’s senior team for the summer tour of Argentina in 2017. Tom got on the team, becoming — at 19 — the youngest forward to play for England, but Ben didn’t feature at all because of an injury.
On Saturday, they’ll stand shoulder to shoulder at Lansdowne Road — they are the same height, 1.85 meters — and start alongside each other against the Irish, the reigning Six Nations champions.
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