ELLIOT Daly, like the rest of his 2021 Lions teammates, was served with a jolting reminder this week that there are plenty of unknowns now that Covid has struck to disrupt the tour of South Africa.

At the top of the tour party’s list is whether the Test series against the Springboks will go ahead. If it does, then the unknown that Daly will want to nail down will be retaining the place in the starting line-up for the series against South Africa in the same way he did in all three Tests in New Zealand four years ago.
Four years ago Daly’s exceptional versatility saw Lions head coach Warren G...