Evans bows out at Stoop with a glorious finale

There are very few of those, but he is one. He has great selflessness. So often you see world-class players – which is what he is – who perhaps don’t always do the small things right. But he does it week in, week out. It’s a pleasure to work with him.”

Thanks to Evans, Harlequins now face a shoot-out for sixth place with Northampton at Franklin’s Gardens next Saturday to decide the final automatic qualification place for the Champions Cup.

Whether England scrum-half Danny Care will be fit to face the Saints is uncertain. The England scrum-half suffered a muscle injury in his abdomen/hip area and left the field after 26 minutes, which allowed Karl Dickson, another player playing his last match at The Stoop, to make an earlier-thanexpected appearance.

“He was struggling to run it off so he has probably stretched it maybe pulled it, I don’t know at this stage,” Kingston said. “It’s eight days to the next game so we will have to see how he scrubs up on Monday.”

Care’s injury will also be monitored by England coach Eddie Jones, who named him in the squad to tour Argentina in the summer. The party meet on May 29 and will play two Tests in June.

Mike Brown and Chris Robshaw, two Harlequins players who were overlooked by Warren Gatland for the British and Irish Lions trip to New Zealand, made significant contributions here.

Brown was a constant menace in attack and Robshaw created Visser’s try, after a failed interception attempt from Kurtley Beale, with an angled run and precise pass.

But it was Evans who kept Harlequins in the game in the first half and who built their lead after the break with a familiar display of accurate kicking. His only miss came in the first half from far out on the right of the pitch.

Wasps appeared comfortable at the interval after Jimmy Gopperth’s superb break from defence set up Dan Robson for their try. But they crumpled in the second half and they may now need to beat Sara-