Whiplash sidelined Murphy for three games

Whiplash is not an injury often associated with hurling, but the condition kept Kilkenny’s Eoin Murphy out of three league games.

Close to the end of the Cats’ Division 1A round-three win over Waterford in Walsh Park on February 18, goalkeeper Murphy collided with totemic forward Tom Devine and, while the effects weren’t evident, they later revealed themselves and he had to sit out the remaining round games, against Tipperary and Wexford, as well as the quarter-final with Offaly.

As Murphy gathered the ball, Devine arrived and they clashed.