Springboks get important Pollard injury status update

The Springboks can breathe a sigh of relief after getting a welcome injury update on first-choice flyhalf Handre Pollard.

The Springboks have been given a pertinent update on flyhalf Handre Pollard injury after his club, the Leicester Tigers, disclosed the prognosis of his injury.

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The Springboks’ No 1 flyhalf was forced to with withdraw from the Leicester Tigers’ English Premiership semi-final against the Sale Sharks on last Sunday.

Since then, there’s been a lot of uncertainty surrounding Pollard’s ailment because Leicester failed to disclose the type of injury he sustained as well as what the severity of it was.

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Pollard’s injury would have caused a lot of panic in the Springbok camp particularly, because South Africa are already without several key players for the Rugby Championship, including inspirational captain Siya Kolisi.

According to a report on Rugby365, Leicester have confirmed that the Springboks playmaker picked up a lower leg injury, but he is not expected to be sidelined long term.

His standout performances for the English outfit over the 2022-23 campaign has been a great news story for SA rugby, and the World Cup winner is earmarked to be a key figure for the Boks in a massive 2023 season.

However, the 29-year-old’s injury battles are well documented and he missed the end-of-year tour to the UK and France in 2022 due to a knee problem.

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SOUTH AFRICA’S 2023 TEST FIXTURES

Rugby Championship

8 July: Springboks vs Australia (Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria)

✈ 15 July: South Africa vs New Zealand (Mount Smart, Auckland)

29 July: South Africa vs Argentina (Ellis Park, Johannesburg)

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World Cup warm-ups

✈ 5 August: South Africa vs Argentina (Vélez Stadium, Buenos Aires)

✈ 19 August: South Africa vs Wales (Millennium Stadium, Cardiff)

✈ 25 August: Springbok vs New Zealand (Twickenham Stadium, London)

Rugby World Cup

✈ 10 September: South Africa vs Scotland (Stade Vélodrome, Marseille)

✈ 17 September: Springbok vs Romania (Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux)

✈ 23 September: South Africa vs Ireland (Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris)

✈ 1 October: South Africa vs Tonga (Stade Vélodrome, Marseille)

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