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Tom Shanklin – 2005 Grand Slam was pinnacle of my career

My Life In Rugby
The former British & Irish Lions, Wales, Cardiff & Saracens centre, who now commentates for Premier Sports on URC, Champions Cup and Challenge Cup

Whilst I played at centre for the majority of my 12-13 years as a professional, I actually made my Test debut for Wales on the wing, against Japan in Tokyo in the summer of 2001.
The reason was purely down to me having no backbone! We played a midweek game against Pacific Barbarians and I remember I was about to get nailed so I passed the ball on to Mark Jones, who unfortunately got nailed instead and got injured. He was ...

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