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High-speed Hadleigh has Cardiff in a frenzy as party time starts early

■ PETER JACKSON at Principality Stadium

What a start: Hadleigh Parkes scores for Wales after 69 seconds
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AND so it came to pass that Warren Gatland’s Six Nations’ reign with Wales ended as it started, another Grand Slam pushing them ever higher in the world pecking order.
As due reward for a triumph achieved in some style on a right royal occasion, Wales will turn up in Japan come September as the first European contender to reach a World Cup within months of winning a Slam since Martin Johnson’s England went to Australia in 2003.
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