{"id":483931,"date":"2026-03-19T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483931\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:38:08","slug":"womens-six-nations-2026-wales-lose-alex-callender-and-nel-metcalfe-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483931\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations 2026: Wales lose Alex Callender and Nel Metcalfe to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Callender was co-captain for last year&#8217;s two-Test series against Australia \u2013 leading the side to a historic first win Down Under \u2013 and the World Cup in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old overcame an ankle injury to feature in the tournament but then needed surgery after Wales&#8217; early exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She returned for Harlequins at the end of January and it is believed to be a fresh injury and not a relapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams, who made her Test debut against Ireland in 2023, shared the captaincy duties and has been chosen as the leader for the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn said: &#8220;Kate Williams has the respect of the whole squad, and her leadership skills means she will be Wales captain for this Six Nations campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales lost all five games of last year&#8217;s championship, condemning them to a second Wooden Spoon on the bounce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callender was co-captain for last year&#8217;s two-Test series against Australia \u2013 leading the side to a historic first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483931","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=483931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}