Donald to dine out forever on tallest of fisherman’s tales

UNLIKELY hero Stephen Donald has started taking stock of his World Cup final-winning exploits, and admitted: “It is an unreal experience.”

Two weeks ago, Donald was enjoying a holiday fishing for whitebait on the Waikato river ahead of linking up with Aviva Premiership club Bath on a two-and-a-half year deal after the tournament.

But when New Zealand’s catalogue of injuries to their World Cup fly-halves continued, he found himself summoned by coach Graham Henry.