Pollard injured in training as jinx returns

ByReuters

Published 20/04/2017 at 16:28 GMT

PRETORIA, April 20 (Reuters) - An injury jinx has returned to haunt Handre Pollard and handed South African rugby another setback after the Bulls flyhalf hurt his ankle in training on Thursday.

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He will be out for between eight and 10 weeks, according to a brief statement from the Bulls, and might need surgery after consulting doctors.

The 23-year-old returned at the start of the Super Rugby season in February, having missed the 2016 campaign after rupturing knee ligaments in a freak training ground accident.

Pollard, regarded as one of the most exciting Springbok prospects in years, also suffered complications after elective shoulder surgery, adding five weeks to his hospital stay.

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He won his first South Africa cap aged 20 and has played 20 tests, the last at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

Pollard was expected to be first-choice flyhalf for the Boks this year after they had a miserable 2016 campaign without him. (Reporting by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by David Goodman)

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