Currie was educated at Bristol Grammar School and played his early rugby for Clifton and Somerset before attending Oxford University to study geography.
[2] The pair of them would form a noted second-row partnership, which began when they both made Test debuts for England against Wales in the 1956 Five Nations.
[3] The partnership with Marques lasted for 22 consecutive Tests spanning five years,[4] a successful period for England as they won the Grand Slam in 1957 as well as Five Nations championship titles in 1958 and 1960.
[5] He retained his place for the next match, a non-first-class game against the Royal Air Force, but those were his only appearances for Somerset's first team, although he played for the second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship up to 1955.
[6] He had dropped out of the Oxford side well before the University Match in both seasons and so did not win a cricket Blue to go with the rugby ones.