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
to the british and irish lions squad just weeks after the tour captain dislocated his shoulder. connor murray captain s the team against south africa a tomorrow with 12 changes to the side that beat sharks. the first test against the springboks is due to be played in cape town on the 2athjuly and head coach warren gatland said he ll decide whetherjones rejoins the squad today. he has made a remarkable recovery in terms of that injury which the assessment was initially it wasn t assessment was initially it wasn t as bad as they first thought so it is a real positive and would be a boost to the squad having someone of his experience and calibre to come back into the squad. the former open winner zachjohnson is the latest player to pull out of this week s championship, after testing positive for covid 19. the american won the event in 2015. masters champion hideki matsuyama and louis dejager also miss out after testing positive. the open begins this thursday
with president trump. and so hence, the reason we re bringing up that tweet. why leave now? why show kelly the door now, jason? well, because the orange jump suits are coming. who wants to be in the office when that s happening. nobody wants to be the tour captain on the titanic. nobody wants to be harvey weinstein s lawyer. so you think it was kelly s decision to leave? because we don t know if it was his decision or if trump fired him. if there s one thing we saw with onmarosa and a lot of othe people, donald trump doesn t like directly firing anybody. what he tends to like to do is what he did with his previous head of the department of justice, his attorney general, he likes to bully people and make you quit on your own. so i don t think he fired john kelly. so the issue that we face here is the new chief of staff isn t just responsible for trying to