Fitness in doubt
The All Black flanker, I. A. Kirkpatrick, suffered tom rib ligaments while leading Poverty Bay-East Coast against the Lions in Gisborne yesterday. Kirkpatrick made light of the injury at the time but was in pain after the match. His availability for the New Zealand team for the third test in Wellington must now be in doubt—-
which would further weaken a pack already robbed of A. R. Sutherland’s sendees. However, the test is 10 days away and there is a possibility that Kirkpatrick could play with the aid of pain-killing injections. But his injury will present the national selectors with a knotty problem when they choose the team this weekend.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32665, 22 July 1971, Page 26
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113Fitness in doubt Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32665, 22 July 1971, Page 26
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