Best an injury worry for quarter-final

IRELAND’S progress to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals may have come at the expense of first-choice hooker Rory Best.

The elation of yesterday’s victory and the chance to play Wales next Saturday in Wellington for a place in the semi-finals was tempered by an injury early in the second half to Best, who was taken immediately for a scan on his injured shoulder.

If reports of a broken collar bone prove correct, Best, one of Ireland’s players of the tournament so far, would see his World Cup come to a disappointing end, with Munster’s Mike Sherry favourite to be called into the squad.