RUGBY: HB misses out on Jonah's comeback

All Black icon Jonah Lomu has chosen a testimonial match at Twickenham ahead of a nostalgic return to Napier's McLean Park for his return to rugby's big-time in June.
The huge wing will captain a Southern Hemisphere team in a testimonial game for World Cup-winning England captain Martin Johnson at the English rugby headquarters on June 4.
It means he will miss the All Black trial the previous day at McLean Park, where he played the trial which first won him an All Black jersey in 1994.
But it doesn't mean he will be taking things easy, and the 29-year-old, making a comeback after his kidney transplant last year, says he expects to play the full 80 minutes of the Twickenham game, marking the end of the career of Johnson, who announced his retirement overnight.
Lomu said from London today that he didn't intend being at the match just to make up the numbers.
"I'm not there to just play 30 minutes. I want to play the whole 80 minutes."
He was happy with his training and his build-up back to match fitnesss.
"I'm not far off it," he said.
"It's just making sure I get game time on and also just getting knocked about a bit as well."
Lomu, who made his All Black test debut as a 19 year old, was capped 63 times between 1994 and 2002, despite battling Nephrotic Syndrome.
He starred in both the 1995 and 1999 World Cup tournaments, but by 2003, his health problems had worsened to the extent that he dropped out of the Super 12 that season.
Last July, he had a kidney transplant.
Lomu said the sceptics who questioned his return to the playing field were entitled to their opinion.
But he had been working with medical specialists, his wife and family were behind him and he was confident he was not putting himself at risk.
The make-up of the team he would captain was still to be confirmed.
Earlier today, Lomu told a news conference at Twickenham that his training schedule over the next four months would be a testing one and would be combined with playing sevens rugby.
"I've got so much energy I don't know what to do with it," he said.
"I train three times a day six times a week and am going through three trainers a day as they can't keep up."
He said he was limiting his ambitions to the short term.
"I've always dreamed about returning to the top of the game, but my goal at the moment is June 4."
He added that there was no particular risk to his new kidney, which had been put in the same region as his original kidneys.
"I've taken all the steps," he said.
"I am taking no more risks than any one crossing the road." Johnson said he was delighted to see Lomu back in action.
"He's always been a real draw for the game and it's fantastic that he has come back," he said.
"To see him come back from illness is amazing."