Wales prop Thomas has surgery

Wales prop Rhys Thomas has undergone surgery after being treated for a heart condition suffered in training with the Scarlets.

The 29-year-old was taken to hospital in Swansea on Thursday, has “undergone successful surgery” and is in a “comfortable condition”.

Thomas, the last of whose seven caps came in 2008, will recover in hospital. He was born in South Africa but began his professional career in Wales, making his debut for Newport, the town of his father’s birth, in 2003.