About Ieuan Evans
Ieuan Cennydd Evans (born 21 March 1964) is a Welsh former rugby union player. He played as a wing for Llanelli, Bath, Wales and the British and Irish Lions. He is the fourth highest try scorer for Wales and joint 32nd in the world on the all-time test try scoring list. Evans held the record for the most Wales caps as captain with 28, a record overtaken by Ryan Jones in 2012. == Career == === Club level === Evans was born in Pontarddulais, Wales, and started playing rugby at the age of 10 as a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen before captaining the team at the newly renamed Queen Elizabeth Maridunum School. When he was 17, Evans started playing for Carmarthen Quins RFC youth side before joining Llanelli two years later, initially as a student at Salford University. He went on to win five of seven cup finals for the club playing 232 games and scoring 194 tries. In 1997 he left Llanelli for Bath where he was part of the team which won the Heineken Cup in 1998. === International level === While at Llanelli, Evans gained a call-up to the Welsh National Side and made his first international appearance as a right-wing for Wales against France in Paris in 1987. He went on to win 72 caps for Wales, 28 of which as a captain, and scored 33 tries – at that time a record for Wales – and was dubbed "Merlin" by TV commentator Bill McLaren.
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