Hat-trick: Josh Adams scores his third try for Wales against Italy
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TRY hat-tricks in the Six Nations are still relatively few and far between but nowhere near as rare as they used to be. Josh Adams’ last week brought the total over the last 20 years to 18, three times as many as during the previous 30.
Italy’s entry into the Six has had a fair bit to do with it. Of all the hat-tricks of the 21st century they have conceded eleven, comfortably more than the sum total during the last three decades of the Five Nations as accounted, in chronological order, by ...