Leinster quiet on extent of Johnny Sexton’s groin injury

Leinster escaped lightly on the World Cup injury front given the number of representatives they contributed to Joe Schmidt’s squad, but there was no word yesterday on the severity of the groin injury which kept Jonathan Sexton out of the quarter-final defeat to Argentina.

The out-half suffered the injury during the final Pool D game against France a week earlier. Though replaced by clubmate Ian Madigan at the time, he was named for the clash with Argentina before being scrubbed from the teamsheet on the morning before the game.

The Ireland camp was circumspect on the nature and the extent of the issue at the time and Leinster assistant coach John Fogarty revealed little more aside from the fact that Sexton did some light running at UCD yesterday and that he is being assessed throughout the week.