WALES HEAD COACH Warren Gatland has named an experienced 35-man squad which features no new caps for their upcoming Tests against England and New Zealand.
Toulon full-back Leigh Halfpenny hasn’t been included. Halfpenny has been sidelined with a cruciate knee ligament injury since a World Cup warm-up game against Italy last September.
The 27-year-old had been hoping to return to action for Toulon this season until he suffered a setback last month which required further surgery.
Despite sustaining injuries recently, both Alun Wyn Jones and Sam Warburton are named in the squad. Warburton is the only openside included, with Justin Tipuric ruled out due to concussion.
Wales will play England at Twickenham on 29 May, before departing for New Zealand to take on the All Blacks on 11, 18 and 25 June.
Forwards: Rob Evans (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Paul James (Ospreys) Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Racing Metro), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), James King (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester), Josh Turnbull (Cardiff Blues), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, captain).
Backs: Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Priestland (Bath Rugby), Jonathan Davies (Clermont Auvergne), Tyler Morgan (Newport Gwent Dragons), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Matthew Morgan (Bristol), Tom James (Cardiff Blues), George North (Northampton Saints), Eli Walker (Ospreys), Liam Williams (Scarlets).
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Well done Kate. Absolutely outstanding
Delighted for you, so proud of achieving Silver, after a stunning indoor championship. What an athlete. A fantastic role model for every athlete in lreland, well done and thanks for time and effort put in to allow us to have Olympic dreams again
Fantastic achievement, well done.
Watched you all the way. Brilliant. Well done. Also well done to the BBC coverage who were cheering you on all the way. No “ Our Girl” language.
Well done Dundalk proud
Some achievement on the world stage, fair play to her and her team. Looking forward to watching her over the next decade please God. Another Irish female star.
Soooooooo proud
Brillent next its gold .Anyone know what station its on so i wont miss next two days
@SEAN: found it
@SEAN: bbc 2
Fair play Kate. Phenomenal performance!
Amazing stuff – what an achievement and what a 2 weeks! New Irish sporting superstar in the making, congrats Kate! Now imagine what she could do if she was a full time pro…
Amazing stuff
Only saw the 800m but she pulverised her rival for silver. And the gold medal winner didn’t find it too easy to keep up with her. There is surely more to come!
Outstanding achievement!
Will she be saying the same thing when she represents Northern Ireland at the commonwealth games next year? British occupied
@John Deane: Unlikely John if you knew anything about her! You should try and poison some other thread instead
@John Deane: born in the republic off ireland dundalk
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