The Scotsman's David Ferguson talks to Scotland's Chris Cusiter as he prepared to make his return to the Test match stage against Italy at Murrayfield.
"The challenge of making it into Scotland's World Cup squad may be uppermost in the minds of the home players who take to the field tomorrow for the final EMC warm-up Test match but, for Chris Cusiter, merely returning to the field will be a massive step forward.
The 29-year-old scrum-half last played for Scotland in March 2010, when he captained the team to a famous win over Ireland at Croke Park in Dublin - a triumph that ruined the Irish bid for a Triple Crown. Almost from that moment on he has fought a debilitating knee injury that, five months later, was finally diagnosed as not the condition initially suspected but a fractured kneecap, requiring an operation that was to take him out of the game until April of this year."
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