The full Wales casualty list ahead of summer tour to South Africa as Wayne Pivac left sweating on 13 injured stars

Wayne Pivac hasn’t yet reached the point where he echoes the old American football coach whose side sustained so many injuries he lamented: “If this keeps up, our team picture this year will be an X-ray.”

But, still, give it time and all that. Every week seems to see yet another Wales player invalided out of some game or other.

On Saturday, Scarlets pair Johnny McNicholl and Wyn Jones left the fray prematurely against Cardiff amid knee injuries. Eight days earlier, screams from Ross Moriarty could be heard echoing around the Kings Park Stadium in Durban, while Josh Adams is another one on the casualty list.

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Rarely does a match go by without a head bump in a sport that’s become relentlessly physical, with Johnny Williams among those who needed time out after such a knock at the Arms Park. Williams was able to finish the game; another Wales international, Kirby Myhill, wasn’t so lucky. He took a heavy duty knock to the head while trying to tackle Sione Kalamafoni and wasn’t seen again. The same applied to Ryan Elias after a collision with team-mate Jac Price.

All Pivac and club and regional coaches can hope is that the players concerned make full and swift recoveries.

But the orthopaedic issues are stacking up for Wales’ head coach. Wales tour South Africa this summer and already there are some whom we can confidently predict won’t be available.

Here’s the list of those who are off limits to their coaches at this point.

He’d been in form, winning the man-of-the-match award the weekend before this one, but he hurt a knee while setting up a try for Liam Williams. He tried to play on, but he was in pain and left the pitch early in the second half. He’s set to be checked out