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<\/p>\nWales have been dealt an injury blow with the key man ruled out for the remainder of the season<\/p>\n
Wales and Scarlets fly-half Sam Costelow <\/p>\n
Sam Costelow faces a race against time to be fit for Wales’ Nations Championship fixtures this summer after undergoing ankle surgery.<\/p>\n
The Wales playmaker picked up the injury during the narrow Six Nations<\/a> defeat to Scotland and will miss the remainder of the Scarlets<\/a>‘ United Rugby Championship campaign.<\/p>\n This is a blow for both Wales and the Scarlets, as Costelow has been in good form this season.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old was outstanding against Scotland in the Six Nations and looks ready to kick-on with his international career after a bumpy start.<\/p>\n It means Ospreys<\/a> outside-half Dan Edwards is the favourite to wear the number 10 shirt this summer, with Jarrod Evans and Callum Sheedy also in contention.<\/p>\n JOIN OUR WALES RUGBY FACEBOOK PAGE Latest news, analysis and much more<\/a><\/p>\n Both Costelow and Edwards are in pole position to be Wales’ two first-choice number 10s leading into the Rugby World Cup<\/a> in Australia next summer.<\/p>\n Steve Tandy will be hoping the competition between both players can drive standards within the squad.<\/p>\n Costelow will also be absent for the final four games of the Scarlets’ United Rugby Championship campaign meaning teenage Wales U20s outside-half Carwyn Leggatt-Jones will likely get a run in the number 10 shirt.<\/p>\n Wales face the Barbarians at Allianz Stadium Twickenham on June 27 before starting the inaugural Nations Championship against Fiji at the Cardiff<\/a> City Stadium.<\/p>\n Tandy’s men then face Argentina in San Juan before finishing their season with a daunting trip to Durban to take on world champions South Africa.<\/p>\n Costelow has not been ruled out of the summer fixtures but faces a race against time as does hooker Dewi Lake who has undergone shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n But Wales will be boosted by the return of inspirational backrower Jac Morgan.<\/p>\n Wales won their first Six Nations game in three years last time out against Italy but will be hoping to build on that result this summer.<\/p>\n Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. Sign up to our free daily newsletter here<\/a> and our WhatsApp channel here<\/a> for all the breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have been dealt an injury blow with the key man ruled out for the remainder of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,19428,101,56,54,55,9015],"class_list":{"0":"post-526236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-scarlets","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wales-rugby-team"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526236","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=526236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}