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With their best players involved in the 2001 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, the squad featured a blend of youth and experience.[1] Although they won just one of their non-test matches on tour, Wales won both tests against the Japan national team.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsResults[edit]Wales v Barbarians[edit]Suntory v Wales[edit]Japan Select XV v Wales[edit]First test: Japan v Wales[edit]Pacific Barbarians v Wales[edit]Second test: Japan v Wales[edit]References[edit]Results[edit]Scores and results list Wales’ points tally first.Wales v Barbarians[edit]Before embarking on their tour, Wales played an uncapped match against the Barbarians, the first match of three for the Barbarians on their own tour of Great Britain.[5] Much of the discussion regarding Wales’ team selection for the match centred around fly-half Gavin Henson, who at 19\u00a0years and 108\u00a0days, would be the youngest Wales player to appear at the position since Llewellyn Lloyd in 1896.[6] Henson ultimately started the game on the bench, as coach Graham Henry preferred Neil Jenkins, one of eight Wales players in the team who were due to join the British & Irish Lions on their tour to Australia later in the summer.[7] Shortly before the game, the Welsh Rugby Union decided to downgrade it from fully-capped to uncapped.[8]The Barbarians held a 14\u20137 lead at half-time, thanks to tries from Dan Luger and Joeli Vidiri, either side of one from Jenkins. Wales thought Shane Williams had levelled the scores with a try under the posts just before the break, but it was ruled out for a forward pass in the build-up. After the interval, Kevin Morgan scored a pair of tries for the home side, one converted by Jenkins and the other by Stephen Jones, to put them 21\u201314 up. Substitute winger Friedrich Lombard responded for the Barbarians, but Braam van Straaten missed the conversion to leave them two points behind. Williams did score a try shortly afterwards, with Jones converting to put Wales 28\u201319 up. The Barbarians’ replacement hooker Naka Drotsk\u00e9 cut the deficit to two points again with a converted try, but Craig Quinnell restored Wales’ nine-point margin soon after. As the game entered the final minutes, Percy Montgomery scored a try for the Barbarians, again converted by Van Straaten, only for Stephen Jones to kick a penalty moments later, putting Wales five points up shortly before the 80-minute mark; however, in the third minute of injury time, Lombard scored his second try of the game to level the scores, and Van Straaten kicked the conversion to give the Barbarians a 40\u201338 win.[9]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Suntory v Wales[edit]Wales’ opening tour match was against Japanese league champions Suntory, the first time a Japanese club side had faced a touring international team.[10] Taking over as coach from Graham Henry, who was coaching the British & Irish Lions in Australia, Lynn Howells named nine full internationals in the Wales team, including Stephen Jones, who was playing out of position at inside centre to accommodate Henson at fly-half. Jones captained the team in the absence of tour captain Andy Moore, who was rested. Cardiff flanker Robin Sowden-Taylor was picked to start despite not having played a senior match at club level.[11] Lock Craig Quinnell was picked to start the match, but he pulled out due to injury and was replaced in the line-up by Adam Jones.[12] Wales held a 21\u201310 lead at half-time, but four second-half tries from Suntory, including a last-minute winner, saw them come from behind to claim a 45\u201341 victory.[13]Japan Select XV v Wales[edit]Team detailsFB15Goshi TachikawaRW14Tomokazu YamauchiOC13Reuben ParkinsonIC12Nathan StrongmanLW11Michinori OdaFH10H. TanakaSH9Takashi TsujiN88Hayden ScownOF7T. MiyashitaBF6Masanao WashiyaRL5Jun AkuneLL4Adam ParkerTP3Kazu HamabeHK2Masao AminoLP1Kenichi TakayanagiReplacements: Yasuhiko Iwama Ken Tsukagoshi Nakano E. Yamamoto M. Ito Mori Reo KawaiCoach:First test: Japan v Wales[edit]Pacific Barbarians v Wales[edit]Second test: Japan v Wales[edit]References[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/2001-wales-rugby-union-tour-of-japan\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"2001 Wales rugby union tour of Japan"}}]}]