| Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome Date: Saturday, 12 March Kick-off: 14:15 GMT |
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Duhan van der Merwe will miss Scotland’s closing Six Nations matches with Italy and Eire after his purple card for Worcester resulted in a ban.
The wing, 26, was dismissed “for reckless or harmful play” on London Irish’s Kyle Rowe and has been suspended for 3 weeks.
Nevertheless, Van der Merwe can play towards Gloucester on 25 March “topic to finishing the World Rugby Teaching Intervention programme”.
Scotland go to Italy on Saturday.
And Gregor Townsend’s facet full their marketing campaign away to Eire the next Saturday.
British and Irish Lion Van der Merwe scored his tenth attempt on his sixteenth Scotland look as France left Murrayfield with victory on matchday three.
Jonny Grey, Adam Hastings, Ross Thompson and Glen Younger had been added to the Scotland squad after Nick Haining, Oli Kebble, Rufus McLean, Ollie Smith and Marshall Sykes had been dominated out by way of damage.
The Scots received their opening match on this yr’s championship towards England earlier than the defeats by Wales and the French.
Scotland squad
Forwards: Ewan Ashman (Sale Sharks), Josh Bayliss (Bathtub), Simon Berghan (Glasgow Warriors), Magnus Bradbury (Edinburgh), Andy Christie (Saracens), Allan Dell (London Irish), Rory Darge (Glasgow Warriors, Matt Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Jonny Grey (Exeter Chiefs), Jamie Hodgson (Edinburgh), Stuart McInally (Edinburgh), Kiran McDonald (Glasgow Warriors), WP Nel (Edinburgh), Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh), Sam Skinner (Exeter Chiefs), George Turner (Glasgow Warriors), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh), Glen Younger (Edinburgh).
Backs: Mark Bennett (Edinburgh), Darcy Graham (Edinburgh), Chris Harris (Gloucester Rugby), Adam Hastings (Gloucester Rugby), Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs), Rory Hutchinson (Northampton Saints), Sam Johnson (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh), James Lang (Edinburgh), Ali Value (Glasgow Warriors), Kyle Rowe (London Irish), Finn Russell (Racing 92), Kyle Steyn (Glasgow Warriors), Ross Thompson (Glasgow Warriors) Sione Tuipulotu (Glasgow Warriors), Ben Vellacott (Edinburgh), Ben White (London Irish).
