Ben Te’o injured for South Africa tour in England rugby training camp England and Worcester centre Ben Te’o has been injured during the England Rugby training camp ahead of their tour to […]

England and Worcester centre Ben Te’o has been injured during the England Rugby training camp ahead of their tour to South Africa, ruling him out of the summer fixtures under Eddie Jones.

The 31-year-old, who has 13 caps for England and featured in this year’s poor Six Nations campaign under Jones, will require surgery following an injury to a quad muscle in his leg, being described as a “minor” injury.

He now joins Cameron Redpath and Jack Willis as players Jones had selected for the tour but will now miss it due to injury. It has been announced that Gloucester full-back Jason Woodward, Northampton centre Piers Francis and Wasps no 8 Nathan Hughes have been called into the 34-man squad as replacements for the trio.

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Criticism of training camps

Bruce Craig, the owner of Bath, told The Times recently that he was incensed with the number of injuries accrued at Eddie Jones’ England rugby training camps, after up-and-coming prop Beno Obano became the fifth Bath player to receive a serious injury under Jones’ training.

He told The Times, after Obano’s injury was described as “multiple ligament and hamstring tendon damage” also believed to have damaged a cruciate ligament: “The level of injuries in these training camps is totally unacceptable.

“What is going on in the camp? There is obviously an issue because of the number of injuries. There has got to be significant questions asked about duty of care. At Bath, we’re not having cruciate ligament injuries in training. I am unsure of whether the players are not being taken to levels that are unacceptable.

“These are totally unacceptable injuries and it is the nature of them too, these are serious long-term injuries.”

Similarly after Jack Nowell’s torn quad on the England training camp, Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter criticised England‘s light appraisal of the injury: “We were told there was no significant injury and England didn’t feel it was a big issue, just an overload issue, but when we get him back here and we scan him we find a significant tear of his quad.”

With some help from the Daily Mail‘s Will Kelleher’s ongoing Twitter feed on the subject, here’s a handy list of the injuries:

The first fixture in the three-test tour of South Africa is at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on 9 June.

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