Wexford get Chin Leinster SHC availability boost

LOOK WHO'S BACK: Lee Chin of Wexford. Pic: Seb Daly, Sportsfile

Lee Chin has returned to full training with Wexford ahead of their opening round game of the Leinster championship against Dublin on April 21st.

Chin picked up a hamstring injury during a National League game against Clare in late February and missed the subsequent clashes with Waterford and Cork.

"I think it was probably the first pre-season I was able to participate in two years,” he explained at the launch of the Leinster Hurling Championship on Wednesday.

“I couldn't participate in the last two years with pre-season so you're kind of feeling like you're behind throughout the season and trying to catch up when you don't get a full pre-season underneath you,"

"This year I did and everything was moving quite nicely and I suppose the setback in the hamstring is due to an injury a couple of years ago with the PCL (posterior cruciate ligament) in my knee.

"Obviously the hamstring probably comes under a bit of pressure with that now and again and there's no real pattern to why it happens. It’s just a certain movement that kind of irritates the hamstring now and again because of the elasticity in the knee.

"That's what I put it down to, maybe the hamstring thing, but all is well at the minute and I'm improving things on that end."

The game against Cork on March 16th, one Wexford lost by 12 points, came a little too soon for Chin.

"The week of the Cork game was when I was due to be back, that was my time period for rehab and I potentially could have made the Cork game, I was feeling good that week," he continued.

"But it was just too much of a risk to take and you're just on the deadline of when you're returning and usually when you're coming back to play, you have to, in our camp anyway, you have to perform in two full sessions to be deemed as fit to play again and I just didn't have that week.

"I was only back the day of the Cork game, that was my three or four weeks of rehab done so I just missed that game, it just came a week too soon for me. The following week I was back in full training and I've been in full training since."