Grandson of cricketing great keeps place in back rowLloyd Williams to start Saturday’s Autumn Nations Cup matchHis grandfather was an English sporting icon and his father toured
South Africa with Sir Clive Woodward’s
England in 2000 without winning a cap, but James Botham’s dream since he was a boy has been to pull on the red jersey and take on the men in white.
His envisaged setting was the Principality Stadium rather than Parc y Scarlets, where Saturday’s Autumn Nations Cup match will be played, but the 22-year old flanker, who was born in Cardiff when his father Liam played for the Arms Park club but moved to England when he was three, cares only that he will be involved two weeks after he was unexpectedly called into the Wales squad.