For the second successive game in Australia there is bittersweet news for the British & Irish Lions. Another half-century of points was a decent return against initially spirited opponents but, once again, they look likely to lose a potentially significant player to injury with the best-of-three Test series kicking off at this same venue in just over a fortnight.
For now there is no official confirmation but Elliot Daly’s tour is expected to be cruelly curtailed after the nasty forearm injury he sustained in the second half. He was taken to hospital for X-rays on a suspected fracture which will almost certainly require the Lions to summon another replacement, having already lost the scrum-half Tomos Williams to a torn hamstring.
