Injury could force Vickery out for eight weeks

England captain Phil Vickery is unlikely to play again this season after suffering a knee injury during Wasps’ Guinness Premiership victory over Sale Sharks on Tuesday night.

Vickery also looks set to miss England’s summer tour of New Zealand. England face the All Blacks in Auckland on June 14, then Christchurch seven days later.

Wasps say a full recovery is expected to take around eight weeks, which would sideline him until mid-June.

Vickery, who led England at last autumn’s World Cup and in the RBS 6 Nations Championship this season, suffered a tear to the medial collateral ligament of his right knee.