Alun Wyn Jones has completed his extraordinary recovery from a dislocated shoulder in time to reinforce the British and Irish Lions for their Test series against South Africa.

Jones sustained the injury against Japan at Murrayfield on June 26 and was quickly ruled out of the remainder of the tour, only to resume training with Wales this week in the hope of proving his fitness to Warren Gatland.

And having come through a double session at the Vale Resort on Tuesday, he has been given the all clear by medics to rejoin the Lions and will arrive at their base outside of Cape Town on Thursday.

“We’ll have a conversation with Alun Wyn and Conor when Alun gets out here and talk about that,” Gatland said

“There’s a good chance that Alun will resume as tour captain and I think Conor will be pretty happy with that.

“None of us expected he would be able to make this recovery and come out. We’ll make the best decision for the squad.”