Rustiness

He showed no rustiness and donned both the role of a goal-scorer as well as that of a playmaker in an outing that excited the supporters to no end.

Ormiston will be hoping there is no rustiness as they have not played a full 90 minutes of competitive football since the end of November.

But, just when doubts might have begun surfacing over whether McLaughlin-Levrone could cope with any rustiness caused by her racing rarity, she delivered yet another world record – her fifth in the 400m hurdles – to in 50.65sec at the end of June.

From a performance perspective, Rovers showed some good signs but there was also examples of rustiness and areas of improvement too.

But that’s to be expected when you combine this type of format — unfamiliar players thrown together in an open gym concept — with the rustiness that comes with months off of formal competition due to the pandemic.

It is all part of the planning of Gatland as he builds towards next year’s World Cup and he will hope that the rustiness in the victory over the Scots is gone by the time his side host Australia next weekend.

Starc featured in the final T20I against Indian and showed no signs of rustiness.