Luke Anthony Cowan-Dickie (born 20 June 1993) is an English professional

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player for

Exeter Chiefs Exeter Chiefs (officially Exeter Rugby Club) is an England, English professional rugby union club based in Exeter, Devon. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. The club was founded in 1871 and since 2006 has played i ...

in the

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. He plays primarily as a hooker but can also play

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Club career

Cowan-Dickie has previously been dual-registered with both the

Cornish Pirates The Cornish Pirates ( kw, An Vorladron Gernewek) are a professional rugby union team who play in the Championship, the second level of the English rugby union pyramid, and are the premier Cornish rugby club. Formerly known as Penzance & Newlyn ...

and

Plymouth Albion Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England. The present club was founded in 1920 from a merger between Plymouth RFC (founded 1876) and Devonport Albion RFC (founded 1876). Since 2003 they have pl ...

to aid his player development. On 19 November 2011 Cowan-Dickie made his debut for Exeter at the age of eighteen in a

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game against

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. He made his Premiership debut in 2014 and that same year was part of the side that beat

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in the final of the

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. He has played more than a hundred games in the Premiership, scoring a hat-trick against Harlequins during the 2016–17 season which culminated in Exeter defeating

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in the final to win their first League title. Cowan-Dickie scored the opening try of the 2020 European Rugby Champions Cup Final as Exeter defeated

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to become European champions for the first time. Exeter then defeated Wasps the following weekend to complete a League and European double.

International career

England

In 2010 Cowan-Dickie represented England under-18. He was a member of the England under-20 team that won three successive titles in the

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and 2013 U20 Six Nations. He was part of the squad that finished seventh at the

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and the following year scored a try against

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at the

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and subsequently started in the final of that tournament as England defeated

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to become Junior World Champions for the first time. In January 2015 Cowan-Dickie represented England A against the

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. Cowan-Dickie was named in the 50-man training squad for the

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. On 15 August 2015, Cowan-Dickie made his senior international debut against

as a second-half substitute for

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in a warm-up match for the 2015 World Cup at

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. He was ultimately not selected for the tournament. In 2016 Cowan-Dickie was part of the team that achieved the

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during the 2016 Six Nation and later that year was a member of their tour party for the successful summer tour to Australia. Later that year, he was ruled out of the November internationals with an ankle injury. A knee injury sustained in early 2017 meant Cowan-Dickie missed out on touring Argentina in the Summer, but he returned to International Rugby in 2018 as he was called up by Eddie Jones to join the Six Nations training squad. He was later selected for the three-Test

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where he made two appearances as a replacement as England lost the series 2-1. Cowan-Dickie scored his first international tries against

and

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in warm-up games for the

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. He was selected for the tournament and scored in all three pool stage games against

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and

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. In the World Cup final he was a second-half substitute for

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as England were defeated by

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to finish runners up. After the World Cup Cowan-Dickie scored a try against

in the

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which England went on to win. Later that year he scored a try as England beat France in the final of the

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British and Irish Lions

Cowan-Dickie was named in the squad for the

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. He made his debut off the bench in the 14-56 victory over the Sigma Lions. He then went on to feature in tour matches against the Cell C Sharks and South Africa 'A'. In the Lions' match against the

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he scored his first try of the tour and was named Player of the Match. Cowan-Dickie made his Lions test debut in the first

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against

, scoring the only try of the game for the Lions in a 17-22 win. He also started the second test, a 27-9 loss. Cowan-Dickie was on the bench for the final test, with Welsh hooker

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taking his starting spot. The close 19-16 loss meant that South Africa won the series 2-1.

International tries

England

British & Irish Lions

Honours

England *

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runner-up:

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Exeter *

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: 2019-2020 * Premiership: 2016-17, 2019-20 *

: 2013-14

References

External links

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Twitch Channel
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