Phil Bennett

Welsh fly-half and standout player of the 1970s whose creative play, exceptional goal-kicking and Lions heroics during the famous 1974 unbeaten series in South Africa established him as a genuine rugby legend.

Phil Bennett is Wales's mercurial fly-half who succeeded the great Barry John and quickly established himself as a worthy heir. His famous try in the Barbarians' defeat of New Zealand in 1973 — initiated by his extraordinary jinking run through virtually the entire All Black team — produced one of rugby's most celebrated try-scoring sequences. His exceptional footwork and instinctive creativity epitomised the best of 1970s Welsh rugby.