Danny Cipriani
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| Date of birth | November 2, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Roehampton, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 202 lb (92 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fly-half, Fullback | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2006-2010 2012-2016 2016- |
Wasps Sale Sharks Wasps |
97 76 16 |
(471) (590) (49) |
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Correct as of 22 January 2017
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| Super Rugby | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2011-2012 | Melbourne Rebels | 12 | (108) |
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2008- | England | 14 | (64) |
Danny Cipriani (born 2 November 1987) is an English rugby union player who currently plays for Premiership team Wasps. He plays fly-half and fullback. He has played for the Melbourne Rebels, Sale Sharks and England as well as Wasps. He started his professional career at the Wasps academy in 2003 and has moved up to the highest level of professional rugby, by playing for some of the top clubs in the world and by representing his country.
Danny Cipriani is mixed-race, his father is Afro-Trinidadian with some Italian heritage while his mother is English. Cipriani's father, Jay, and his mother, Anne, separated soon after his birth. Although Jay returned to Tobago, Cipriani was able to remain in contact with him. He lived with his mother in Putney. To send him to a private school, his mother learnt The Knowledge so that she could drive a London Taxi. She was able to afford to send him to the Wimbledon College prep school, Donhead.
Spotted as a rugby talent at Donhead, he was offered a scholarship and advised to move to the Junior House of The Oratory School near Reading to continue his development. He later moved to Whitgift School in Croydon after Common Entrance. A keen all-round sportsman, Cipriani played junior football for Queens Park Rangers and was offered youth terms by Reading. He also played schoolboy cricket for Berkshire and Oxfordshire. He was invited to join Surrey County Cricket Club as a batsman. He also played squash at county level. He first played club rugby at Rosslyn Park in Roehampton, where he developed his passion for the game.
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