High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tom Richards Trophy is an international rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of British and Irish Lions vs. Australia test series. It was commissioned for the 2001 British Lions tour to Australia and the inaugural winner was Australia, who won the series 2-1. This was the first time that Australia had managed to defeat the Lions in a series. The two teams` first meeting was in Australia in 1899 where they played a four test series, won by the Lions 3-1.