Joe Marler insisted Harlequins’ 48-24 Gallagher Premiership defeat by Bristol confirmed he had got the timing of his retirement right.

The deal to cede sovereignty over the archipelago to the Mauritian government was announced earlier this year.

Judd Trump is relishing the next chapter of his emerging rivalry with Kyren Wilson after the pair swept into the UK Championship semi-finals in York on Friday. Trump compiled four centuries and 527 ...