Borthwick left to decide Henry Arundell's immediate Six Nations future

England wing Henry Arundell will not face any further sanction for the costly 20-minute red card he received in last Saturday’s 31-20 Calcutta Cup defeat to Scotland.

An independent Six Nations disciplinary committee has decided that the red card was sufficient punishment and he is free to play in Saturday’s round three clash against Ireland.

A statement released by the championship organisers said: “The player accepted that he had committed the acts of foul play that resulted in the showing of the two yellow cards, which led to the red card.

“The independent Disciplinary Committee upheld the red card but determined that, in the circumstances (including that the first yellow card had been issued for a ‘technical offence’, and that the second yellow card had been issued for a very different act of foul play), the sending off of the player had been a sufficient sanction, and no further sanction was appropriate.

“The player is now free to play.”

Arundell was first sin-binned for not clearly releasing in the tackle, before picking up a second yellow for taking out Kyle Steyn in the air.

The Bath man still maanged to find his way across the whitweash for the fourth time in the Six Nations, making him the leading try-scorer in this year’s championship after the opening two rounds.