Veteran Ireland International Ruled Out Of Australia Tour
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Man down.
Ireland captain Rory Best has been ruled out of next month’s tour of Australia after failing to recover from a hamstring injury.
Best picked up the problem in training ahead of Ulster’s Champions Cup play-off clash with Ulster a couple of weeks back and missed the northern province’s win.
Munster’s Niall Scannell has been called up as a replacement.
Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt says vice-captains Peter O’Mahony and Johnny Sexton may share the captaincy for the tour.
With @RoryBest2 ruled out Joe has said that @JohnnySexton & @peterom6 who are Vice Captains may share the captaincy in Australia #TeamOfUs pic.twitter.com/E13cr6rfvr
— Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) May 31, 2018