{"id":13602,"date":"2026-04-22T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13602"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:07:58","slug":"womens-six-nations-bethan-lewis-to-captain-wales-v-england-with-kate-williams-and-carys-cox-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13602","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations: Bethan Lewis to captain Wales v England with Kate Williams and Carys Cox out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bethan Lewis will lead Wales against England in the Women&#8217;s Six Nations on Saturday (14:15 BST) with fellow back rower Kate Williams ruled out through injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams came off in the second half of the 38-7 defeat by France last weekend with a leg problem and will miss Wales&#8217; meeting with the world champions at Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Callender, Williams&#8217; co-captain last year, is still recovering from an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis led Wales against Canada at last summer&#8217;s World Cup and said: &#8220;It&#8217;s always a massive honour to put on the jersey and to be able to lead the girls out against England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England game will come too soon for Wales centre Carys Cox, who was a late withdrawal from the France defeat after taking a knock in training, but head coach Sean Lynn says wing Seren Singleton is fit despite leaving the field with her arm in a sling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will name his side on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethan Lewis will lead Wales against England in the Women&#8217;s Six Nations on Saturday (14:15 BST) with fellow back rower Kate Williams ruled out through injury. Williams came off in the second half of the 38-7 defeat by France last weekend with a leg problem and will miss Wales&#8217; meeting with the world champions at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}