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Can Shane Williams finish off his international career in style? Or will opposite number Lachie Turner or whizz kid James O’Connor steal his thunder in his first start at fly half?

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These questions and more will be answered right here as the Dove Challenge match unfolds. We will be following every pass, kick, scrum, lineout and breakdown as Wales and Australia battle for the James Bevan Trophy.

To make sure you don’t miss a single moment’s action log on to www.wru.co.uk/live just before kick-off and we will do the rest.

Turner, for one, is determined to spoil the party for Williams, despite admitting he owes a lot to the Welsh wizard.

”Shane has really changed the way wingers play the game,” Turner said. ”Previous to him, the winger was the guy who sat at the end of the back line, and finished off tries, whereas he really changed that by coming in and being a ball-playing threat right across the park.

“I learnt a valuable lesson from him several years ago, when in the first 20 minutes of a Wales-Australia Test, Shane scored a try, and set up two others – not one of them was on his wing.

‘That really changed the game, and Wales went on to beat us quite convincingly. That showed to me how a winger can really assert themselves on a game by finding some of the bigger players [in the opposition]. And that’s something I’m constantly doing now – scanning the field, looking for mismatches involving some of the bigger, slower boys around the field, where you can do some footwork on.

”This is a big chance for me to show Robbie and the selectors that I am good enough to be at this level,” Turner said.

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