{"id":287850,"date":"2023-08-26T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=287850"},"modified":"2023-08-26T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T01:38:10","slug":"kyle-sinckler-injury-adds-to-borthwicks-england-world-cup-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/rugby-union\/kyle-sinckler-injury-adds-to-borthwicks-england-world-cup-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Sinckler injury adds to Borthwick&apos;s England World Cup crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kyle Sinckler injury adds to Steve Borthwick&#8217;s World Cup crisis as he becomes England&#8217;s latest absentee after being ruled out of Fiji clash<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Prop Kyle Sinckler will miss England&#8217;s game against Fiji due to a pectoral injury<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Captain Owen Farrell and No 8 Billy Vunipola are also both banned for the game\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>England get their World Cup underway against Argentina on September 9<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>England&#8217;s disastrous World Cup preparations continued as Kyle Sinckler became the ninth player on Steve Borthwick&#8217;s casualty list.<\/p>\n<p>The prop is understood to be carrying a pectoral injury that will rule him out of Saturday&#8217;s game against Fiji, leaving him with a race to be fit for the opening World Cup group match with Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Sinckler was running at yesterday&#8217;s captains run at Twickenham but Borthwick is desperately low on man-power as the main event draws closer.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Owen Farrell and No 8 Billy Vunipola are banned, while winger Anthony Watson and scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet have both been ruled out through injury.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot Daly, Henry Arundell, Tom Curry and George Martin are among the short-term absentees, as Borthwick prepares to formalise his final 33-man squad on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/25\/19\/74734027-0-image-a-17_1692989334145.jpg\" height=\"814\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Sinckler is set to miss England&#8217;s World Cup warm-up match against Fiji with an injury<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/25\/19\/74734017-0-image-a-18_1692989340451.jpg\" height=\"365\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It is the latest blow for head coach Steve Borthwick, who is already missing several key players\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prop Joe Heyes has been around camp to provide cover for Sinckler, with England scheduled to fly out to France next week.<\/p>\n<p>In a message of defiance, coach Kevin Sinfield said on Friday: &#8216;We didn&#8217;t envisage encountering as many challenges as we have had, but it will prepare us for what&#8217;s to come when we get to France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In many ways the fact that we&#8217;re dealing with this now hopefully makes it easier for us when we get to France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were a tight group already, but how you handle those setbacks and those obstacles are really important to how the team moves forward and how the team functions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After each one of those blows &#8211; if you call them that &#8211; we&#8217;ve got back up and gone again. We&#8217;ll continue to do that. These obstacles will continue to bring us closer together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In another group, in one that wasn&#8217;t as experienced or as hungry to do well, it might have been really, really challenging for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When things start to pull apart there are fractures &#8211; groups start to break off and spend time together, sitting together and having separate meetings. There is none of that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/25\/19\/74734335-0-image-a-19_1692989540584.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>England are trying to build momentum ahead of their World Cup opener against Argentina\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/25\/19\/74734345-0-image-a-20_1692989547758.jpg\" height=\"433\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Borthwick&#8217;s side were thrashed 29-10 by Ireland in Dublin last weekend and are in poor form<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12446551\/Kyle-Sinckler-injury-Steve-Borthwick-England-World-Cup-crisis-prop-Fiji.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Sinckler injury adds to Steve Borthwick&#8217;s World Cup crisis as he becomes England&#8217;s latest absentee after being ruled out of Fiji clash Prop Kyle Sinckler will miss England&#8217;s game against Fiji due to a pectoral injury Captain Owen Farrell and No 8 Billy Vunipola are also both banned for the game\u00a0 England get their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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