Steve James, of the Daily Telegraph, looks at the remarkable rise of Ben Morgan.
"Last week I interviewed Ben Morgan. He’s the No 8 playing for the Scarlets in Llanelli, who might well make his England debut very soon.
He’s in the Six Nations squad anyway. And he has got an interesting tale to tell. He’s a Gloucestershire boy who went to Wales, firstly at Merthyr Tydfil, to make his mark in professional sport.
It’s a similar path that I trod many moons ago. But at least Gloucestershire County Cricket Club offered me a contract, if only in a face-saving move to respond to Glamorgan’s offer.
When Morgan left Gloucestershire in 2008, unable to make it regularly into the Cinderford team who were then in National League Three South, nobody seemed too bothered."
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