Sporting Digest: Rugby Union

Worcester yesterday suspended their back row forward Chris Scott until 9 February following an incident which left the Nottingham wing Nick Carroll nursing a broken jaw in two places. The former Neath and Newport flanker will miss Worcester's lucrative fifth-round home tie in the Tetley's Bitter Cup against Newcastle on Sunday week.

Ian Greenslade, the Treorchy hooker, has been suspended for six matches by the Welsh Rugby Union's disciplinary committee for stamping.

Scotland A selectors have picked from players north of the border for the match against Northern Transvaal tomorrow week. Doug Morgan, the team manager, said: "We took the decision to let the England-based players play for their clubs in what is an important weekend for them." The team will contain five new caps, the New Zealander Shaun Longstaff, the former rugby league player James McLaren, the prop Gordon McIlwham, medical student Andy Lucking and Aberdonian Martin Waite.