Sione Tuipulotu believes "divine intervention" has been at work to help him achieve his dream of returning home to Australia to play in the red shirt of the British & Irish Lions.
The 28-year-old Scotland captain, who hails from Melbourne, feared his chances were over when a pectoral injury kept him out of the Six Nations championship and prevented him playing a single game so far this year.
But the soon-to-return Glasgow Warriors centre was left "ecstatic" when his name was read out among coach Andy Farrell's squad for the eagerly awaited tour on Thursday.
