Scott Hastings, the former Scotland rugby centre who played alongside his older brother Gavin for the national team as well as the British & Irish Lions, has died. He was 61.<\/p>\n
The Scottish Rugby Union announced his death today. In 2022, Hastings said he had been diagnosed with cancer and the SRU referenced a family statement that said he \u201cdeteriorated extremely quickly\u201d due to complications with his treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe passed away peacefully and pain-free,\u201d the family statement read.<\/p>\n
The most-capped centre in the history of Scotland’s men’s team after making 65 appearances from 1986-97, Hastings was a member of its Grand Slam-winning team in the Five Nations in 1990 and scored 10 tries for his country.<\/p>\n
He also toured twice with the Lions \u2014 in 1989, when he started two of their three Test matches against Australia, and ’93 in New Zealand. He regularly played alongside Gavin, who was three years his elder and also part of the back line of Scotland and the Lions at fullback.<\/p>\n
Scott Hastings was later a TV pundit.<\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including a New Zealand man forces a Qantas flight to divert, and a dramatic collision at a US air show. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Hastings, the former Scotland rugby centre who played alongside his older brother Gavin for the national team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,221560,213],"class_list":["post-432774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-orientation-landscape","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}