Leinster get the job done, but Johnny Sexton suffers fresh injury blow

Castres 24 Leinster 24: Leinster lost Jonathan Sexton to injury last night but just about held out for a draw in a six-try thriller that all but guarantees them a Champions Cup quarter-final home tie when the competition resumes in early April.

But to their out-half first.

Sexton has already endured a season of frustrations due to various hamstring injuries but it was a calf concern that ended the Ireland ten’s evening at the start of the second quarter and this just a fortnight before the first Six Nations assignment in Edinburgh.