Chris Saverimutto

Last updated
Chris Saverimutto
Full nameChristian Lingard Saverimutto
Date of birth (1971-08-08) 8 August 1971 (age 54)
Place of birth Wallasey, England
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1995–96 Ireland 3 (0)

Christian Lingard Saverimutto (born 8 August 1971) is an English-born former rugby union international for Ireland. [1]

Contents

Saverimutto was born and raised in Merseyside, England. His father is Sri Lankan and his maternal grandparents were from Dublin, Ireland. [2] He attended St Anselm's College, Birkenhead. At colts level, Saverimutto had featured in an England side, but ended up switching allegiances to Ireland on the basis on his ancestry. [3]

A Sale player, Saverimutto made his Test debut for Ireland in 1995 as a scrum-half against Fiji at Lansdowne Road, which was Ireland's first match in the fully-professional era. [4] In 1996, he played a Test against the United States in Atlanta, followed by the Five Nations fixture against Scotland, with a knee injury then curtailing his progress. [5]

Saverimutto is now a chartered surveyor. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Christian Returns To Where It All Began For Him". Wirral Globe. 25 July 2001.
  2. ↑ "Link man with right connections". The Irish Times . 20 January 1996.
  3. ↑ "Chris sets sights on Irish return". Irish Independent . 10 December 1998.
  4. ↑ "'The money was new but we were still old-school' – Chris Saverimutto recalls 1995 Fiji test, the start of Irish rugby's pro era". Irish Independent. 11 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Saverimutto joins the Caldy clan". The Telegraph . 1 September 2000.
  6. ↑ Neville, Conor (10 August 2016). "The Irish Team Who Played First Ever Professional Game - Where Are They Now?". Balls.ie .
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.