"Just because of the year I've had, I've got to be a little bit selfish and it's probably not the best thing for me to do. "For me, [captaincy] is probably not the best thing - it's my first game back hopefully in the ABs, and then we'll go from there." He's done it tough has Coles since rupturing knee ligaments in Paris last November. "You get a little bit down and think that the best thing might be to give this year up. The loneliness of those hard gym sessions would have broken a younger, less experienced Coles.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 29, 2018 19:30 UTC