TheBreakdown
Full time20 January 1973
Wales
25–9
England
Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales · Five Nations 1973Head-to-head

Wales won by 16 points.

Scoring

  1. –CWales conversion · Phil Bennett2–0
  2. –PWales penalty · John Taylor5–0
  3. –TWales try · Gerald Davies9–0
  4. –TWales try · Arthur Lewis13–0
  5. –TWales try · John Bevan17–0
  6. –TWales try · John Bevan21–0
  7. –TWales try · Gareth Edwards25–0
  8. –PEngland penalty · Sam Doble25–3
  9. –PEngland penalty · Sam Doble25–6
  10. –DEngland drop goal · Alan Cowman25–9

Line-ups

Wales

  1. 1Glyn ShawProp
  2. 2Jeff YoungHooker
  3. 3John LloydProp
  4. 4Delme ThomasSecond row
  5. 5Derek QuinnellSecond row
  6. 6Dai MorrisFlanker
  7. 7John TaylorFlanker
  8. 8Mervyn DaviesNumber 8
  9. 9Gareth EdwardsScrum-half
  10. 10Phil BennettFly-half
  11. 11John BevanWing
  12. 12Arthur LewisCentre
  13. 13Roy BergiersCentre
  14. 14Gerald DaviesWing
  15. 15JPR WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Jim ShanklinBench
  17. 17IM LewisBench
  18. 18Clive ShellBench
  19. 19Mike RobertsBench
  20. 20Bobby WindsorBench
  21. 21HW JenkinsBench

England

  1. 1Stack StevensProp
  2. 2John PullinHooker
  3. 3Fran CottonProp
  4. 4Peter LarterSecond row
  5. 5Chris RalstonSecond row
  6. 6John WatkinsFlanker
  7. 7Tony NearyFlanker
  8. 8Andy RipleyNumber 8
  9. 9Jan WebsterScrum-half
  10. 10Alan CowmanFly-half
  11. 11David DuckhamWing
  12. 12Peter PreeceCentre
  13. 13Peter WarfieldCentre
  14. 14Alan MorleyWing
  15. 15Sam DobleFull-back
  16. 16Geoff EvansBench
  17. 18Stephen SmithBench
  18. 19JD GrayBench
  19. 20Nigel HortonBench
  20. 21Peter DixonBench

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Context

All-time, Wales 61–66 England, 11 drawn in 138 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Wales going in
England going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.