{"id":253361,"date":"2025-11-09T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253361\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:33:08","slug":"wales-21-38-argentina-live-autumn-nations-series-score-team-news-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253361\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales 21-38 Argentina LIVE: Autumn Nations Series score, team news & radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Persistence pays off for Cracknellpublished at 16:10 GMT<\/p>\n

16:10 GMT<\/p>\n

HT: Wales 14-31 Argentina<\/p>\n

\"OllyImage source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n

International life is set to begin at 31 for Olly Cracknell after the back row was rewarded for his perseverance \u2013 and physicality \u2013 with a place on Wales’ bench today.<\/p>\n

Cracknell initially missed out on Steve Tandy’s squad for the four November Tests but then Taulupe Faletau suffered a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Impressive Prem form earned the Leicester man a call-up and Cracknell is poised to make an impact off the bench<\/a> against the Pumas.<\/p>\n

It will be a rise to international level for a hard-working, no-nonsense forward who arrives at Principality Stadium via Rygbi Gogledd Cymru (RGC) in Colwyn Bay, Ospreys, London Irish and then, after the Exiles’ financial collapse, Tigers.<\/p>\n

The back-rower’s reward for plugging away will come on Sunday when he becomes the 1,216th player to represent his country.<\/p>\n

Cracknell edged out 20-year-old Morgan Morse to face the Pumas and will be keen to make an impression in the countdown to the 2027 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

“When we named the team on Monday and Olly was announced you see the emotion,” said Tandy, who coached Cracknell at Ospreys.<\/p>\n

“I felt emotional seeing someone who’s gone on such a journey to get that opportunity later on in his career. I think it’s an amazing story.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistence pays off for Cracknellpublished at 16:10 GMT 16:10 GMT HT: Wales 14-31 Argentina Image source, Huw Evans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-253361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}