- Sharks 7-54 British & Irish Lions
- Lions win well but questions mount about Tour’s viability
Pressing ahead with the 2021 British & Irish Lions tour was always going to be a calculated risk but its ongoing viability is now teetering on the brink. This is a potentially strong Lions squad but, despite this latest comfortable provincial victory at Ellis Park, the accelerating third wave of Covid-19 infections sweeping across southern Africa is emerging as their most daunting opponent.
As the SA Rugby chief executive Jurie Roux correctly stressed there are rather more pressing local concerns than games of rugby being disrupted but the chaos caused by two positive coronavirus tests inside the Lions’ supposedly bio-secure bubble, forcing eight withdrawals from the originally selected Lions 23, clearly poses a major threat to this tour running its full course.
Written by Robert Kitson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/07/adams-hat-trick-for-lions-helps-lighten-the-mood-as-covid-chaos-intensifies under the title “Adams hat-trick fuels Lions win but Covid chaos puts tour on brink”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
