Scotland captain Sione Tuipulotu’s participation within the Six Nations has been forged into doubt after he was injured in coaching with Glasgow Warriors.
The centre sustained an higher physique drawback this week, although he was going to be rested for Warriors’ Champions Cup recreation with Harlequins on Saturday anyway.
Tuipulotu is being assessed and Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend faces a nervous wait to see if one in every of his most influential gamers will miss half, and even all, of the Six Nations marketing campaign.
It will be an enormous blow to lose a person thought of one of many type gamers in Europe proper now and considered by many as an apparent alternative for the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia this summer time.
Tuipulotu made his Scotland debut towards Tonga in 2021 and has scored three tries in 30 worldwide appearances.
Scotland’s opening match of the event is towards Italy at Murrayfield on February 1.
