• Brad Shields faces fitness race while Dombrandt impresses
England are optimistic the key Saracens duo George Kruis and Mako Vunipola will be fit to play a part in their World Cup preparations but Brad Shields is facing a race to be ready for the tournament.
Shields returned home from the World Cup training camp in Treviso last week with a foot injury and his hopes of playing in the warm-up games before England depart for Japan appear unlikely. John Mitchell, the England defence coach, described Shields’s ligament tear in the lower-foot as “a little bit niggly” with the Wasps flanker expected to be out for four to six weeks. England have a self-imposed deadline for naming their World Cup squad on Monday 12 August and their first match in Japan is on 22 September in just under eight weeks.
Written by Charles Richardson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/30/england-george-kruis-mako-vunipola-world-cup-brad-shields under the title “England’s George Kruis and Mako Vunipola set to return before World Cup”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
