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Hooper’s whirlwind ton proves Test glut

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The Rugby Paper Team
18 October 2020

PETER JACKSON

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Centurion: Michael Hooper takes on the All Blacks last Sunday
PICTURE: Getty Images

Sir Gareth Edwards never missed a match for Wales and it still took him eight years to get as far as 50 caps, a test of unparalled endurance at the time. During the early hours of last Sunday morning, at The Cake Tin in Wellington, Michael Hooper took the penny and the bun on the occasion of his 100th Test for Australia. That he did it in a time only marginally longer than Edwards needed to play half as many makes the feat all the more phenomenal.
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