The try to beat all tries

IT IS the try seared into the memory of every rugby fan.

Gareth Edwards’ wonder score for the Barbarians against New Zealand at Cardiff Arms’ Park, exactly 30 years ago. Phil Bennett shimmies and passes to Williams, Williams to Pullin to Dawes, Quinnell to Edwards. Try.

It was the only the second minute of the game and the opening exchanges had been pretty frenetic. So when All Black winger Bryan Williams got the ball from his skipper Ian Kirkpatrick and kicked it deep inside the Barbarian 22, you would have put money on the ball being swiftly returned to the other end of the pitch.