Wales have not won a Test match since the 2023 World Cup.
Wales will have another chance to try and end their long losing run when they tackle Australia in Melbourne on Saturday.
A week after Australia took the first Test 25-16, Wales will aim to tie the series and claim a first international scalp since the 2023 World Cup.It is 21 years since Wales suffered 10 successive Test match defeats – their worst losing run in 143 years of playing international rugby. But they are moving ever-closer to matching that sequence, and it will be nine on the bounce if Australia triumph this weekend.
James Botham will hope to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather – cricket great Sir Ian Botham – when he features at AAMI Park. It was 38 years ago, barely a five-minute walk away, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground that Sir Ian played a major role in England retaining the Ashes. The 1986 Boxing Day Test saw him take five first-innings wickets as Australia collapsed to 141 all out, and England went on to win by an innings inside three days, giving them a 2-0 series lead with one game left.
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