Double boost for Scotland

Nathan Hines and Alasdair Strokosch today handed Scotland a much-needed fitness boost ahead of next Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations game in Italy.

Leinster lock Hines was forced to pull out of the team for last weekend’s dramatic defeat in Wales with calf and ankle injuries, while Gloucester flanker Strokosch missed his country’s opening two matches of the tournament with an ankle problem.