PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
Knee surgery: Jonathan Davies will miss the season
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Sir Gareth Edwards never missed a match for Wales and yet it still took him more than eleven years to compile his unbroken sequence of 53 Tests. They came at the rate of five-ayear because that was how it used to be back then, a time when those running the sport preserved the magnetic appeal of international competition by restricting fixtures to a minimum.
Had he started half a century later and reigned over the same period, his cap collection would have reached 150.
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