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Sporting Digest: Rugby Union

Thursday 04 June 1998 00:02 BST
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Will Greenwood, the England and Lions centre, has signed a new four-year contract with Leicester Tigers.

Mark Cornwell, the Gloucester second-row forward, has signed a new two- year contract with the Kingsholm club, while the scrum-half Laurie Beck has agreed a new one-year deal.

SCOTLAND (v New South Wales, Sydney, Saturday): G Metcalfe (Glasgow Caledonians); C Joiner (Leicester), C Murray (Edinburgh Reivers), R Shepherd (Glasgow Caledonia), S Longstaff (Glasgow Caledonian); G Townsend (Brive), B Redpath (Edinburgh Reivers); D Hilton (Bath), G Bulloch (Glasgow Caledonian), M Proudfoot (Edinburgh Reivers), S Murray (Bedford), S Grimes (Glasgow Caledonian), R Wainwright (Glasgow Caledonian, capt), E Peters (Bath), G Simpson (Glasgow Caledonian). Replacements: D Lee (London Scottish), D Hodge (Edinburgh Reivers), G Burns (Edinburgh Reivers), A Roxburgh (Edinburgh Reivers), S Campbell (Glasgow Caledonian), G McIlwham (Glasgow Caledonian), K McKenzie (Glasgow Caledonian)

TOUR MATCH (George, SA): South West Districts (14) 27, Ireland (11) 20. SW Districts: Tries Roberts, C Stoltz; Conversion Benade; Penalties Benade 4. Drop goal Benade. Ireland: Try Foley; Penalties Humphreys 5.

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