Dragons RFC duo Aaron Wainwright and Elliot Dee both featured as the Barbarians defeated the World XV 48-42 in an entertaining clash at Twickenham on Sunday afternoon.
Steve Hansen's World XV stormed 21-5 ahead with three converted tries inside 18 minutes through Sebastian Negri, Sbu Nkosi and Israel Folau. Barbarians scored through Adam Radwan.
The Barbarians soon found their rhythm with scores by Tevita Li, Seta Tamanivalu and the pick of the bunch from Stephan Lewies after a move full of side-steps and offloads.
Gareth Anscombe galloped over from 30 metres before half-time, and when replacement Sam Johnson scored twice either side of Bryn Hall's effort, the Barbarians were 43-35 ahead.
Nkosi, earlier denied an acrobatic effort, went over for his second, and Rhys Patchell's conversion meant there was just one point in it for the final five minutes.
But centre Tamanivalu went over direct from a penalty for the winning score.
Congratulations to Aaron who started for the Barbarians and Elliot who was an early replacement for the World XV.
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