Seasoned prop Steven Kitshoff has joined a number of his World Cup winning team-mates on a Springbok injury list.
A neck injury means the World Cup-winning star won't play for the Boks any time soon.Experienced Stormers and Springbok loosehead prop Steven Kitshoff is the latest Rugby World Cup winner to be sidelined due to an injury.
Kitshoff has not played for the national team in several weeks and joins a long list of injured men in Rassie Erasmus’ Boks squad.Other World Cup stars currently on the sidelines include locks Lood de Jager, Franco Mostert, Jean Kleyn, RG Snyman, centre Andre Esterhuizen, fullback Damian Willemse and scrumhalf Faf de Klerk.
“From what I understand, he is out for six weeks at least. Ligaments in the neck are quite a dangerous cocktail. It’s a cocktail that we want to be quite conservative about.”
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