But what a score it was from the 21-year-old Northampton Saints wing-turned-centre, who crashed over the Leinster line at a packed Aviva Stadium in the fifth minute of this Sunday’s European clash in Dublin.
That was North’s 12th Heineken Cup outing and it ended in a famous revenge victory as Northampton bounced back from their 40-7 thumping at Franklin’s Gardens the previous Saturday with an 18-9 triumph in Round 4.
North is no stranger to scoring at the Aviva Stadium having touched down there for Wales in their 2012 Grand Slam season, but his first European try for either the Scarlets or Saints was a special moment.
When you consider he became the youngest ever international try scorer for Wales when he touched down against South Africa aged 18 years, 214 days, and then set a world record for the number of Test tries he scored as a teenager with 10, it is more than a little surprising that it took him as long as it did to score on the Heineken Cup stage.
He became the youngest try scorer in the history of the Rugby World Cup finals when he crossed against Namibia aged 19 years and 166 days, stripping Australian star Joe Roff of the record, and currently has 17 Test tries to his credit in 38 appearances for both Wales and the British & Irish Lions.
