Ian Buckett
Welsh rugby union player
Ian Martin Buckett (23 December 1967 – 9 July 2024) was a Welsh international rugby union front row forward, who played for Swansea and London Welsh. He also played county rugby for North Wales. He was a championship winning player, an international and an academic.
Buckett was a member of the 1992 Oxford University team and attained three full caps for Wales.
He was selected for more televised rugby football games from 1992 to 1995 than any other UK player.
Early international career
Having scored in his Wales Students debut against England in the inaugural Student World Cup in Biarritz, Southern France in 1988 he would go on to earn selection for the Wales under-21 team both for a warm up game in Aldershot and internationally against Scotland. He had made his reputation after some bustling performances for North Wales representative sides including against New Zealand under-21. He was twenty one years old when he first lined up against the All Blacks in 1989.
In 1992 he skippered Wales Students to a junior World Cup competition in Italy where they were knocked out of the tournament by New Zealand Universities losing 12–13 in Sicily. By the time he was twenty five years old, and as a yet uncapped senior player, Ian Buckett had spent 6 months touring Southern and South Africa successfully within a number of international level teams, playing in one loss.
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