The 25-year-old inside-centre starts for Wales against
New Zealand but
cancer and head injuries mean it’s been an arduous road
Johnny Williams has waited a long time for this. The 25-year-old will start at inside-centre as Wales host New Zealand at the Principality Stadium on Saturday and he has taken an arduous road to get here. “There have been a lot of sacrifices,” he says. “It almost feels like a first cap.”
In fact, it will be his fourth for Wales in a game when Alun Wyn Jones will set a new record for most Test appearances for a single country with 149 – not including his 12 for the
British and
Irish Lions – and Gareth Anscombe returns to Test rugby after more than two years. But Williams’s accomplishment is no less impressive.