JIM
HAMILTON
James Leigh Hamilton started playing rugby at the age of 15 with Barker’s Butts, the club that launched the careers of the Leicester and England pair, Neil Back and Danny Grewcock. He then joined Leicester Tigers’ Academy at the end of 1999, having been spotted by Andy Key and Dusty Hare while playing for Warwickshire against Leicestershire, and he was in the England squad for the under-19 World Cup in Chile in 2001. Jim played regularly for the Tigers’ youth team as well
as being a member of Leicester’s under-21 championship- winning side in 2002/03. His debut for Leicester’s Premiership team followed in September 2003 and he was part of Tigers’ championship-winning squad in the Zurich A League in 2005/06. A sojourn in New Zealand with the Marist Albion club in Christchurch in 2005 was followed by an appearance for the Barbarians’ squad in the Murrayfield match against Scotland in May 2006.
Jim – who qualifies for Scotland through his Glasgow-
born father – has the accolade of being Scotland’s 1000th capped player when, in November 2006, he made a replacement debut in the 48-6 victory against Romania. Ten days later he made his first appearance for Scotland A in the Perth match against Australia A. Within a week he secured his second replacement cap after being recalled to the national squad for the match against Australia. His first start for Scotland was in the Calcutta Cup match
in the 2007 RBS 6 Nations and he went on to play in four of Scotland’s five matches in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. In summer 2008, Jim moved north to join Edinburgh Rugby and featured in all three Bank of Scotland Corporate Tests later in the year and the first two RBS 6 Nations games of 2009. Injury in the Paris international forced him to miss the Murrayfield win against Italy though he was back for the subsequent matches against Ireland and England. He scored his first try for Scotland in the 13-9 win against Argentina in Mar del Plata in the summer of 2010. Jim left Edinburgh Rugby in the summer of 2010 and now plays for Gloucester.
Club: Gloucester
School: Coundon Court School, Coventry Born: 17 November 1982 in Swindon Height: 6ft 8in (2.03m) • Weight: 19st 9lb (125kg) Position: Lock
INTERNATIONAL RECORD: 32 caps Points: 5 Try: 1 2006 – R (rep) A (rep) 2007 – E W It (rep) I1 (rep) F (rep) I2 SA RWC[R NZ (rep) It Arg] 2008 – F W I (rep) NZ SA CAN 2009 – W F I E 2010 – W It E I Arg1 Arg2 NZ Sam (rep) 2011 – I2
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