Record-breaker: Ben Youngs became England’s most-capped men’s player of all time during the Six Nations
(Picture: Getty Images)England’s most-capped men’s player Ben Youngs is targeting next year’s World Cup as an international swansong with a number of young scrum-halves biting at his heels.
Youngs is 32 and overtook Jason Leonard’s record of 114 caps in this year’s Six Nations. Appearing on Lawrence Dallaglio’s Evening Standard Rugby Podcast, he said that while he intends to play on at club level beyond next year’s World Cup in France, he will hang up his England jersey then.
