Diminutive South African has overcome ankle injury ‘Dynamite comes in small packages,’ says wingerA side-effect of the crackdown on high tackles is that small is becoming beautiful again. As big hits become hazardous, off-loading is increasing, along with the pace of games.
Twenty-four years ago, Jonah Lomu redefined wing play when he stampeded his way around
South Africa, but here wide men of rather small stature made their mark in the group stage: Wales’ Josh Adams, Japan’s Kotaro Matsushima and Kenki Fukuoka, Scotland’s Darcy Graham and Cheslin Kolbe, the Springbok speedster who has recovered from an ankle injury to feature against the host nation in Sunday’s quarter-final at Tokyo Stadium.