France captain Antoine Dupont has revealed when he aims to return to play.

The 28-year-old scrumhalf suffered a serious knee injury on 8 March and said on Tuesday that he would only be back in action after Les Bleus’ November Tests against the Springboks, Fiji and Wallabies.

“We’ll be eight months on from my injury,” the Toulouse halfback told French sports newspaper L’Equipe.

“I think it’s a reasonable amount of time. I hope everything will go well between now and then.

“I’m not sure it would be very intelligent to rush, even if it’s hard to miss international games.”

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