Scotland will be capable of name on the companies of Zander Fagerson for his or her World Cup opener towards the Springboks, regardless of the tighthead prop being handed a three-game ban.

Fagerson was initially yellow-carded after which purple carded on overview for a harmful cost at a breakdown throughout Scotland’s come-from-behind win over France at Murrayfield.

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Following a disciplinary listening to  in entrance of an unbiased judicial committee on Tuesday, Fagerson was successfully handed a two-game suspension.

It will rule him out of Scotland’s remaining two warm-up video games towards France on Saturday and Georgia on August 26, however he may very well be free to face defending world champions South Africa on 10 September.

Fagerson was formally banned for 3 weeks, after his preliminary citing for charging was amended to “harmful play in a ruck or maul”, which carries a decrease sentence. He has been given the choice to interchange the final match by becoming a member of the “Teaching Intervention Programme” to work on his method.

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