| Full name | Ewan Philip Fraser Ashman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (2000-04-03)3 April 2000 (age 25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 113 kg (249 lb; 17 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sandbach School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ewan Philip Fraser Ashman (born 3 April 2000) is a professionalrugby union player who plays as ahooker forUnited Rugby Championship clubEdinburgh Rugby. Born in Canada and raised in England, he plays for theScotland national team.
Ashman was born inToronto,Canada, to a Scottish father and English mother, and moved to England at the age of 4.[1] He started playing rugby at English clubSandbach RUFC.[2] First playing as acentre or aback row, Ashman eventually became a hooker.
He made his senior debut for the Cheshire club inMidlands Premier during the 2017–18 season,[3] also joiningSale Sharks academy in 2017.[4] He joined the Sharks' professional squad ahead of the2018–19 seasons.[5][6]
During the next season he was first loaned toEdinburgh as players had left for theWorld Cup, but never managed to make his professional debut, being blocked byDave Cherry,Cammy Fenton andMike Willemse,[2][4] eventually ending up playing inNational League 1 withSale FC.[7]
Back with the Sharks, Ashman made hisPremiership debut on 5 September 2020, coming on as a substitute againstLeicester Tigers, in the latepost-covid break2019–20 Premiership Rugby.[8]
On 22 November 2021 it was announced that Ashman would joinGlasgow Warriors on loan, but he returned to Sale Sharks four days later due to an injury crisis.[9]
He played for Scotland from under 16 level, qualifying through his Edinburgh-born father.[2][4] He played forScotland U20s in the2019 U20 Six Nations and the2019 World Championship, where despite Scotland's disappointing run, he finished as the tournament's top try scorer with seven.[2][4][10][11]
He also took part in the2020 U20 Six Nations,[12] starting all ofScotland five games, and becoming the top try scorer as his team ended second in this unfinished edition standings.[13][14]
In the 2020–21 season he earned his first call-ups for the Scotland senior team underGregor Townsend, both during theAutumn Nations Cup[15] and before the2021 Six Nations.[16] He earned his first cap and scored his first international try on 7 November 2021 at Murrayfield in a closely won victory overAustralia after coming on as an early substitute forGeorge Turner.[17] In 2023 Ashman was selected in the 33 player squad for the2023 Rugby World Cup in France.[18]
He was not selected in the initial squad for the2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, but was subsequently called up ahead of the test series getting underway.[19] He made an appearance in the final midweek match against the First Nations and Pasifika XV, becoming Lion #888.[20][21]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 7 November 2021 | Murrayfield Stadium,Edinburgh, Scotland |  Australia | 12–10 | 15–13 | 2021 end-of-year rugby union internationals |
| 2 | 16 July 2022 | Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades,Santiago del Estero, Argentina |  Argentina | 12–10 | 34–31 | 2022 mid-year rugby union internationals |
| 3 | 19–13 | |||||
| 4 | 7 October 2023 | Stade de France,Paris, France |  Ireland | 36–5 | 36–14 | 2023 Rugby World Cup |
| 5 | 12 July 2024 | Audi Field,Washington DC, United States of America |  United States | 12–0 | 42–7 | 2024 mid-year rugby union tests |
| 6 | 19–0 | |||||
| 7 | 26–7 | |||||
| 8 | 27 July 2024 | Estadio Charrúa,Montevideo, Uruguay |  Uruguay | 5-0 | 31–19 | 2024 mid-year rugby union tests |
as of 12 July 2024[update]
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