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NICK TOMPKINS

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Age 26 (16 Feb 1995)

Born Sidcup, Kent

Position Centre

Club Saracens

Height 5ft 11in

Weight 13st 4lb

Wales caps 16 (2T)

Instagram handle

@nicktompkins1

TWO YEARS in and already Wales coach Wayne Pivac has started eight different players at centre.

Nick Tompkins, the ex-England age-grader who qualifies for Wales via a Wrexham-born grandmother, is pretty much a constant.

Unavailable last autumn against New Zealand, he played at 12 against South Africa, was drafted in at 13 against Fiji after

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