IT WILL not make Welsh prospects any better at the Junior World Cup but one of their back row can justifiably claim to have given the Australians a closer run than his grandfather managed back in the Seventies.
James Botham engineered the try which put the Wales U20s level against the young Wallabies going into the final quarter of their tie in Georgia. Even if history repeated itself for the umpteenth time with Wales succumbing to a late try, the 19-year-old had made his mark.
That was more than could have been said of Sir Ian at the same age when he faced Australia for the first time, for...