For a piece of equipment that is, by most estimates, more than 120 years old, the scrum cap has been curiously static in its development over time. The earliest pictures of scrum caps in action ...

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Jess Breach is to wear a scrum cap for the first time when England face France in Saturday’s Grand Slam decider to protect the gruesome wound that required the attention of a plastic surgeon.

England back row Sadia Kabeya tells BBC Sport "being a black girl in rugby who has curly hair" led her to create a satin scrum cap to "knock down a barrier for people joining the sport".

France captain Antoine Dupont was donning new headwear for their Rugby World Cup quarter-final against South Africa in Paris this evening as he sported a scrum cap. That’s because scrum half ...