France's Dupont to miss November tests with injury

France captain Antoine Dupont said in an interview published on Tuesday he aims to return to playing after his country's November tests.

The 28-year-old scrumhalf suffered a serious knee injury on 8 March and will be sidelined for games against Rugby World Cup winners South Africa, Fiji and Australia.

"We'll be eight months on from my injury," the Toulouse half-back told French 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."