Tadhg Furlong has admitted feeling embarrassed by being tipped to win selection for next summers British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.Ireland completed a 2016 clean sweep over the southern hemispheres big three with Saturdays 27-24 victory over Australia in Dublin.The increasingly-influential Furlong has catapulted himself to the front of the queue for the Lions number three shirt next summer with a string of fine November performances.But the 24-year-old Wexford native has insisted he feels a big, big step away from the Lions picture.Its kind of daunting in a way, to be honest with you, said Furlong of links to next summers Lions squad. Because you know in your own head that jeez, my scrum wasnt great there or my entry wasnt great here, and if I do this against a really great scrummaging pack, Im going to be torn apart here.That is your thought process. And with people throwing that out, you get kind of embarrassed. The Lions is synonymous with such a big brand and so many great players have played there. Do I see myself there at the minute? No.I think I have a long journey to go and, as I said, Ive only started four games for Ireland, two Heineken Cup games for Leinster and it is a big, big step to be making those shouts.Englands Dan Cole, Wales Samson Lee and Scotlands WP Nel will all be in the mix for Lions selection, but Furlong has emerged as the standout tighthead across Irelands impressive autumn series.Furlongs bullish ball-carrying, his unyielding drive and smart set-piece work have all helped Ireland move their tight game on still further under boss Joe Schmidt and forwards coach Simon Easterby. Ireland made history with their first-ever win over New Zealand in their 40-29 triumph at Chicagos Soldier Field.Schmidts side had already toppled South Africa 26-20 in Cape Town in June - and on Saturday added the scalp of Australia to complete a stunning southern hemisphere clean sweep inside 12 months.Ireland are now the first European team to beat the southern hemispheres big three nations in a calendar year since England in 2003. Furlong for one is refusing to let himself get carried away - insisting his emergence as Irelands starting tightead remains in its infancy.The Leinster star also laid much of the credit for his own progress at the feet of 36-year-old provincial team-mate and veteran of 61 Ireland caps Mike Ross.Mike Ross has been a stalwart for years and years and hes delivered so well for Ireland that no other tighthead has really got a look-in, in terms of his consistency in the scrum and general soundness around the pitch, said Furlong.To come up under him, Ive worked with Mike a long time through the academy at Leinster. Hes been a really good mentor for me I suppose to step out of his shadow and get a few games has been really good for me.Look, you cant get carried away either. Youre only one bad scrummaging performance from being torn apart, so theres definitely work I can do in that area. Its something that Ill reflect on these three games Ive played in. 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John Stanworth, the former director of Lancashires cricket academy, has become the latest recruit to the ECBs restructured England Womens Pathway.Stanworth, who spent three decades at Lancashire as a player, first-team coach and ultimately the countys first academy director, has taken up the post of head coach of the England Womens Senior Academy.For this winter, 19 players have been selected from 13 different counties for the Senior Academy programme, which will utilise the National Cricket Performance Centre at Loughborough to improve the experience, performance and conditioning of promising talent. Stanworth will sit on the senior management team alongside the head coach Mark Robinson, who himself joined the England womens set-up from Sussex in November 2015.Although he left Lancashire under something of a cloud last year, following the appointment of Ashley Giles as director of cricket, Stanworth earned huge respect for his role at the club, and is credited with overseeing the development of several young members of the current first-team squad, including Englands opener-in-waiting, Haseeb Hameed.In a separate appointment to the womens set-up, Salliann Briggs has recruited to lead the Academy programme for emerging talent, which is also based at the National Cricket Performance Centre in Loughborough. A further 17 players, representing 10 differeent counties, have been selected for the Academy, which means that the talent for the three international programmes is drawn from a total of 17 counties.ddddddddddddThe pinnacle for any talented, aspiring young cricketer is to play and win matches for England, and through the England Womens Pathway we believe that we are developing a structure to support their journey, said Clare Connor, Englands director of womens cricket.The introduction of the six new Regional Development Centres aligned to the Kia Super League structure helps us to significantly broaden the talent pool that we are working with at the base of the pathway, and without any age constraints, we can take a broader and extended view of a young players potential.From there, the England Womens Academy and England Womens Senior Academy are in place to help bridge the gap to international cricket, developing players with the skills needed on and off the field to perform for England.In Salliann Briggs and John Stanworth we have two superb Head Coaches for these programmes. John brings a wealth of experience in developing high potential players from his role as Lancashire CCC Academy Director for over ten years, and I am delighted to welcome him to this new role. ' ' '