• Players with 60 or more Wales caps can play globally and remain eligible
• North to see specialist over knee injury sustained in defeat to SaracensWales face going to the World Cup in Japan without two of the players who toured New Zealand with the British & Irish Lions this summer following a change in the policy governing players who are based in France and England.
The primitive,complicated format, which put a cap on the number of exiles the Wales head coach Warren Gatland was allowed to choose and only applied to players who had turned down a contract offer from one of Wales’s four regions, and was replaced on Monday with a rule that snares players with fewer than 60 caps who from now on base themselves external the country.
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Source: guardian.co.uk