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Mark Orders

The players who came from nowhere to feature for Wales in the World Cup

Whatever bolts from the blue Warren Gatland comes up with in his World Cup squad selection for France, the shock is unlikely to rival the call into the set-up of Dai Young and Richard Webster in 1987.

The pair were injury replacements.

Just teenagers at the time, they’d been playing club rugby in Canberra when they had a message to report for Wales duty to play in the World Cup.

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