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“We are all positive about it”, said WRU officials manager Nigel Whitehouse, who sits on World Rugby’s laws panel. “We know how good they are, but we are going out to play the perfect match and win”, he said.

Pakistan on Wednesday announced squads for its upcoming series with England and Zimbabwe.

Georgia scrumhalf Vasil Lobzhanidze will become the youngest player in Rugby World Cup history after being selected in the team to play Tonga on Saturday.

Wales were made to wait in their bid to secure qualification for next year’s European Championship as Chris Coleman’s side were held to a 0-0 draw by Israel at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Recalling the fateful incident at the Millennium Stadium which led to his withdrawal from the World Cup and plunged Welsh rugby into a state of grief, Halfpenny said: ‘I remember seeing the Italian outside-half chipping the ball over the line and I have gone for it.

“The All Blacks haven’t won it out of New Zealand and that’s something that, at some stage, someone will do”.

A clean sweep against the remaining sides in their pool, Tonga, Georgia and Namibia should be enough to get Argentina into the quarter-finals and a clash against the winners of Pool D, likely to be either France or Ireland.

He insists he has nothing to prove and also bristled when it was suggested he had an issue at staying with clubs for the longer term, countering the suggestion his third season was when everything goes wrong.

The wait has given them some positive, as Imran Khan junior of Champions team Peshawar and Amir Yamin of Sialkot have paved their ways into 15-man T20 squad.

Play Dream Team global Rugby Tipping and Fantasy worldwide Rugby and be in to win over $4,000 in cash prizes. Ironically, Fiji boasts some of the most naturally talented players in the game, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they were to upset the host nation in the opener.

Jayawardene will join England’s tour to the United Arab Emirates for the Test series against Pakistan next month. The news was made official through England Cricket’s Twitter account.

Lacking serious punch in their backline is offset by their pack who are equal of most in the world, or better. That time, just to spite me, they fell over in the quarterfinals against a once-more rampaging France!

Gatland said he welcomed being written off, claiming Wales – who play two of their pool games on home soil in Cardiff – are content the pressure of expectation is relieved due to the loss of a combined 78 caps of experience.

Close was the youngest player to represent England when he won a Test cap against New Zealand in 1949 at 18 and was one of several senior cricketers selected for duty against the fearsome West Indies a full 27 years later.

“I don’t care about the score, I just want to play well and win”, he said, adding that prop Samson Lee and full-back Liam Williams would both get run-outs after slowly coming back from injury.