'I just want to play' — Bok captain Siya Kolisi fired up for return to action

Despite the odds being stacked heavily against him the Bok captain managed to smash every recovery target asked of him.

“We will just have to see how long I can last. So my role doesn’t change, I just have to play as hard as I can for as long as I can.”With many terming Kolisi’s return miraculous, it has sparked fears about whether he will be able to hold up and not reinjure the knee, which would rule him out of the World Cup, however that is not something that he is thinking about.

“I am going to go into the game with full confidence. There is always that little bit of doubt but I can’t think about that. I and everybody that has worked on my knee has given everything in our power for me to get to this point,” said Kolisi. “Whatever happens tomorrow, I have peace in my heart that I have given myself the best chance to be here. So I am not thinking about that , if it happens it happens.

“In the end that doesn’t matter because I have given everything that I possibly could. So I am not walking in fear but with confidence because I feel really good.”“Our focus as a team is to just build momentum going into the World Cup. Obviously Wales is the focus but we want to make sure that we start building momentum and work on our combinations,” said Kolisi.

“Over the past couple of games the team has been changed so many times because the coaches wanted to give every single guy an opportunity to prove themselves and try and make the World Cup squad.Read more on these topics

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