Eli Walker: Never any doubt that I’d come back playing

One of the cruelest parts of sport, and one as attritional as rugby in particular, is the propensity for quality players to be cut down in their prime through repeated injuries.

For many, it becomes too much and they retire, either because they cannot face the agony of rehab yet again, or because medically it is simply unsafe.

Eli Walker will not be one of these players.

The Ospreys winger has had a torrid time with injuries, tearing his hamstring twice last season to keep him out for the majority of the year.

The young Welshman captured the imagination of the rugby public almost two yea…