Scotland recall Ross Ford and Jonny Gray for Australia clash
Sunday 18 October 2015 15:41, UK
Scotland have recalled hooker Ross Ford and lock Jonny Gray to their team to face Australia in the World Cup quarter-final at Twickenham - a day after their three-week bans were lifted.
Hooker Ford and lock Gray were banned for making a dangerous tackle during the Pool B game against Samoa's Jack Lam.
The pair were left out of the team named by coach Vern Cotter on Friday for Sunday's game against the Wallabies at Twickenham, replaced by hooker Fraser Brown and lock Tim Swinson.
Following a review of the evidence, however, the Appeal Committee dismissed the finding that Ford and Gray had committed a dangerous tackle because the opposing player had not been dropped or driven.
An hour before the match with the Wallabies, the Scots confirmed that both men would start, with Brown and Swinson reverting to the bench. Hooker Kevin Bryce and loose forward Alasdair Strokosch are the unlucky men who drop out of the 23.
Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Mark Bennett, 12 Pete Horne, 11 Tommy Seymour, 10 Finn Russell, 9 G Laidlaw, 1 Alasdair Dickinson, 2 Ross Ford, 3 WP Nel, 4 Jonny Gray, 5 Richie Gray, 6 Blair Cowan, 7 John Hardie, 8 Dave Denton
Replacements: 16 Fraser Brown, 17 Gordon Reid, 18 Jon Welsh, 19 Tim Swinson, 20 Josh Strauss, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Richie Vernon, 23 Sean Lamont
