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<\/p>\nThe game was brought to a halt just minutes into the first half<\/p>\n
The match was halted after 11 minutes(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n
Wales U20s’ Junior World Championship clash with Australia was halted after just 11 minutes as a player was left screaming in agony on the ground.<\/p>\n
Richard Whiffin’s side are competing for fifth place at the championship in Georgia and came up against the Junior Wallabies in a semi-final clash on Sunday night. However, there were distressing scenes just minutes into the match in Tbilisi as Australian full-back Treyvon Pritchard suffered what appeared to be a serious injury that ended his game early.<\/p>\n
With the game still scoreless, Pritchard had helped to start a counter-attack for Australia when he was hauled down by a tackle from Welsh scrum-half Sion Davies on the halfway line.<\/p>\n
JOIN OUR WALES RUGBY FACEBOOK PAGE Latest news, analysis and much more<\/a><\/p>\n He managed to get the ball away, only to be penalised for a forward pass, but as play was brought back it became clear that Pritchard had been seriously hurt.<\/p>\n Replays showed that his ankle had been trapped under Davies in the tackle, with the pain immediately visible on his face as he fell to the ground.<\/p>\n As medics rushed to his aid, Pritchard’s screams could be heard on the TV coverage, with referee Robbie Jenkinson immediately bringing play to a halt.<\/p>\n The yelps of pain continued as the Reds star received treatment, with medics ultimately deciding to carry him off the pitch.<\/p>\n He left the field to applause from both teams, with the extent of his injury yet to be determined.<\/p>\n Shortly after play resumed, wing Rhys Cummings gave Wales the lead with a superb finish after getting on the end of a crossfield kick from Steff Emanuel.<\/p>\n A few minutes later, Osian Lewis doubled his side’s advantage with a well-taken try.<\/p>\n However, Australia hit back almost immediately through Tom Farr-Jones.<\/p>\n After Carwyn Leggatt-Jones was shown a yellow card, Australia made their man advantage count as Sam Blank squeezed over to pull another one back for his side.<\/p>\n Farr-Jones then struck again on the half hour mark to make it 17-14 and put the Wallabies ahead for the first time.<\/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":"The game was brought to a halt just minutes into the first half The match was halted after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55,7167],"class_list":["post-688256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales-rugby-u20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688256","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=688256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}