Bath v Sale Play-off Semi-final, today 3.30pm
RAFFI QUIRKE is banking on Sale's eye-catching end-of-season highwire act bringing him back into the England fold this summer.
The scrum-half, 22, shot to international prominence with a brilliant match-winning try against the Springboks in 2021 but a sequence of injuries since has cost him his place in the England picture.
But back enjoying an uninterrupted run with the club who keep on defying the odds in the race to Twickenham, Quirke (above, in action with Sale) finds himself looking upwards again.
He said: "That South Africa game seems like a long, long time ago. I feel young-like I am just at the start of my career - so the fact that was almost three years ago now is just crazy.
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