O’Driscoll ruled off colour for trial match

IRELAND captain Brian O’Driscoll has been ruled out of a Whites v Colours National trial match at Lansdowne Road on Friday (ko 6.30 pm) and also a pre-Summer Tour squad training camp in Dublin on May 11 to 14, because of a hamstring injury.

Tue, 06 May, 2003 - 01:00
Barry Coughlan

O’Driscoll has not fully recovered from the problem which forced him to withdraw from Leinster’s Heineken Cup semi-final defeat to Perpignan nine days ago.

However, former Irish team captain Keith Wood has been selected in the 47-strong training squad but is also ruled out of the Trial game because of injury.

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