Five players set to rejoin Munster squad training after injuries

Damian de Allende. Photo: munsterrugby.ie

Munster expect World Cup winner Damian de Allende to be fit and available for the resumption of the Guinness PRO14 campaign in late August.

The South African centre, who joined from Japanese club Panasonic Wild Knights earlier this summer, has not trained fully with his new team-mates yet after carrying a groin injury but in Monday’s latest squad update, the province said they did expect De Allende to prove his fitness in ample time to face Leinster in the first of two planned PRO14 derbies on the weekends of August 22-23 and August 29-30.