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4 days ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Netherlands international Logan van Beek is in his first season with LeicestershireLeicestershire's first defeat of the season will not trigger panic, says Foxes all-rounder Logan van Beek. Sunday's five-wicket T20 Blast loss to Northants Steelbacks came two days after the County Championship Division Two leaders opened their white-ball campaign with victory against East Midlands rivals Derbyshire.
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5 days ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Second in the table is the highest Tigers have finished since they topped the ladder on the way to lifting their last title in 2022 under Steve Borthwick. They went on to reach the play-offs with a third-placed finish the following season under Richard Wigglesworth, who took interim charge following Borthwick's departure for the England job midway through their title defence.
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1 week ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
When Michael Cheika took the Leicester Tigers job last summer, the endlessly enterprising coach gave himself one year and one shot to prove a point. Even as the only coach in history to win a major club competition in both hemispheres, who also has an international portfolio packed with pedigree across both rugby codes, the 58-year-old says the lure of the Premiership was impossible to resist.
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1 week ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Alfonso Thomas was put in permanent charge of Leicestershire in November 2023Head coach Alfonso Thomas says it is "baby steps" that have taken Leicestershire from the County Championship doldrums to the top of the Division Two table. They are yet to be beaten this term, having won five of their opening seven matches - as many wins as they managed in the second-tier of the red-ball game between 2019 and 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Decorated former England international Mike Brown says he wants to try to influence the future of rugby union by staying involved in the game after his retirement. When the 39-year-old Leicester Tigers full-back announced that he would be calling time on his 20-year professional career at the end of the season, he did so by making a plea to powerbrokers at all levels to better "protect and grow" the sport.
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3 weeks ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Leicester have won four of five Premiership games since the competition recommenced after a two-month break for the Six Nations. It was at the start of the league hiatus that the hugely experienced Cheika - who previously guided NSW Waratahs to Super Rugby success and Leinster to European glory in the Heineken Cup in 2009 - confirmed he would not stay beyond his one-year contract with Tigers. In Parling they will have a rookie head coach.
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3 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Leicester have won four of five Premiership games since the competition recommenced after a two-month break for the Six Nations. It was at the start of the league hiatus that the hugely experienced Cheika - who previously guided NSW Waratahs to Super Rugby success and Leinster to European glory in the Heineken Cup in 2009 - confirmed he would not stay beyond his one-year contract with Tigers. In Parling they will have a rookie head coach.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Montoya joins a high-profile list of Tigers that will be leaving at the end of the season. Head coach Michael Cheika and two-time World Cup-winning South African fly-half Handre Pollard are both moving on, while Tigers' five-time Premiership-winning scrum-half Ben Youngs is set to retire. Montoya says he will not let his imminent departure from a club that he considers "home away from home" overshadow what they still have to play for this season.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
With Youngs amassing a record amount of England caps over 13 years, Tigers boss Cheika spent a lot of time analysing the scrum-half's game as an opposition coach while at the helm of both Australia and Argentina. It was against Cheika's Argentina in 2023 that Youngs ended his international career, as England beat the Pumas in the third-place World Cup play-off in Paris.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
With Youngs amassing a record amount of England caps over 13 years, Tigers boss Cheika spent a lot of time analysing the scrum-half's game as an opposition coach while at the helm of both Australia and Argentina. It was against Cheika's Argentina in 2023 that Youngs ended his international career, as England beat the Pumas in the third-place World Cup play-off in Paris.
