Thomas Nicholas Youngs received 28 caps for England between 2012 and 2015, including selection for the 2015 Rugby World Cup and the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, when he featured in all three test matches.
Between 2006 and 2021, he appeared 215 times for Leicester, earning the Premiership Rugby title in 2013, the same season he was voted the league’s Player of the Year. With Leicester, he also won the Anglo-Welsh Cup in 2011-12. Youngs played 55 games for Nottingham between 2009 and 2011, switching from center to hooker.
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He is a former rugby union hooker for the Leicester Tigers and England.
Youngs is the younger brother of current Leicester and England scrum-half Ben Youngs and the son of former Leicester and England scrum-half Nick Youngs.
Young was originally a center but switched to hooker after receiving advice from then-Tigers coach Heyneke Meyer.
Youngs represented Gresham’s School, England Schools, and Holt as a junior.
Youngs was selected to Stuart Lancaster’s 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he started all four games as a hooker.
He was controversially ignored by new coach Eddie Jones for the Six Nations and then injured during the summer tour of Australia.
He was passed over for the 2016 Autumn Internationals and was not selected for Jones’ 45-man EPS squad for the Six Nations, which included skipper Dylan Hartley as the first option, Jamie George as the second choice, and Tommy Taylor as the third option.
