“I was scared,” Springbok captain Siya Kolisi admits about the injury that nearly ruled him out of this year's Rugby World Cup.
Kolisi, who is yet to play a Test this year, has recovered from a partial anterior cruciate ligament tear and will return as the team's captain against Wales in Cardiff next Saturday.But Kolisi perhaps tugs at heart strings like no other captain. It is that quality that earlier on Tuesday helped draw a rousing response when his name was read out as captain of the squad for a second straight World Cup.in Randburg was the confluence of hope and relief.
“Every time I felt something weird, I'd go to them and they'd tell me where they were at the stage I was in. It gave me a lot of confidence. I feel really good. I worked hard. Am has established himself as one of the game's most influential centres and he will be sorely missed at the World Cup. Kolisi was downcast to lose a colleague like Am.
“If we lose a flyhalf now, Handré will slot straight in,” he said about the player whose injury has caused more angst than was initially anticipated.
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