Overview
- Sale’s 26-17 Champions Cup win over Harlequins came at a cost as Luke Cowan-Dickie and Bevan Rodd both left the match injured.
- Director of rugby Alex Sanderson said Cowan-Dickie has a suspected broken wrist or forearm and Rodd dislocated a shoulder that medics put back in on the field.
- Both players are unlikely to feature again this season, putting their places in England’s July tests against South Africa, Fiji and Argentina in serious doubt.
- Sale advance to the quarter-finals without the pair and are set to lean on hooker Nathan Jibulu and prop Simon McIntyre to cover the front row.
- England’s depth is already stretched up front, with Jamie George the only senior hooker, tightheads Will Stuart and Trevor Davison sidelined, and loosehead Fin Baxter still working back from a foot issue.