confident, they will send strong team is all competitions. we have been meeting with nations this week and talking about the details on the measures we are prepared to take. so we are fully confident that we will see 21 competing nations representing 16 and the men, eight and the women and eight in the wheelchair. alun wynnjones has been named amongst the replacements for the british & irish lions final warm up game in south africa. the tour captain will have only been in the country a couple of days after making a remarkable comeback from dislocating his shoulder in the japan match less than 3 weeks ago. well last night the lions suffered their first defeat of the tour losing to a very strong south africa a team which included several of the springboks world cup winning squad as they were short of match practice after a covid outbreak. and the hosts dominated in cape town leading the first half 17 3. the lions did score a try for the lions early in the second half but south africa
alun wynnjones has been named amongst the replacements for the british & irish lions final warm up game in south africa. the tour captain will have only been in the country a couple of days after making a remarkable comeback from dislocating his shoulder less than three weeks ago. last night the lions suffered their first defeat of the tour losing to a very strong south africa a team, which included several of the springboks world cup winning squad as they were short of match practice after a covid outbreak. and the hosts dominated in cape town, leading the first half 17 3. the lions did score a try early in the second half, but south africa a held on for the win, despite being down to 13 men after two yellow cards. it finished 17 13. the first test is a week saturday. the indian wicketkeeper batsman rishabh pant has covid 19, and is isolating from the rest of the squad. pant was tested after having a sore throat. he won t travel to durham, where the team are due to enter a bio bu