Statistics
| Squad | Leicester Tigers |
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| Position | Flanker |
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| Age | 31 |
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| Height | 1.93m (6'4") |
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| Weight | 103kg (16st 3lb) |
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| Caps | 60 |
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Few players have won every honour in the game. Lewis Moody MBE is not only among that elite group but joined the '60-cap club' in the Scotland match at Murrayfield in March 2010.
Audacious and athletic, he appeared in all seven matches when England reached the 2007 RWC final and his longevity as well as his excellence is reflected by 2009-10 being his fourteenth season as a Leicester Tigers’ first team squad member. Lewis is joining Bath Rugby on a three-year contract starting this summer.
He made his senior debut against Boroughmuir while still at Oakham School in August 1996 and became the youngest Tiger to figure in a league match.
Six Premiership titles and three Heineken Cup finals have followed, along with his first time captaincy of the Tigers against Leeds Carnegie in 2007-08 and a joint benefit with teammate Geordan Murphy last season.
By February 2010, he had played 205 times and scored 29 tries for the Tigers. Lewis also won three caps for the British & Irish Lions five years ago and would have made more Test appearances except for a series of injuries, including the broken ankle in January 2009 that restricted him to one start and three on the bench in the final four months of the season.
He went to Argentina with the England squad in June but did not appear in the Test at Salta. Lewis replaced the injured Tom Rees, of London Wasps, in the England Elite Squad last autumn.
Before his international debut against Canada nine years ago, he had represented England Under 18s, Colts and Under 21s before first appearing for the A team alongside other debutants Steve Borthwick, Jason Robinson, Jamie Noon, Andy Goode and Tom May against Wales A at Wrexham in February 2001.
Lewis reached the 50-cap landmark when England beat Australia 12-10 in the 2007 RWC quarter final. He had appeared in all four Investec Challenge matches in the autumn of 2006 but missed the subsequent RBS 6 Nations Championship, having required shoulder surgery after Leicester's historic Heineken Cup victory over Munster.
His first touring experience with England was to the Southern Hemisphere 12 years ago.