The England centre Shane Geraghty has been ruled out of the rest of this year's Six Nations campaign and Gloucester's Olly Barkley has been called up as his replacement. Geraghty broke a bone in his hand playing for London Irish against Wasps on Sunday. Barkley takes his place ahead of Sunday's game against France.

Meanwhile, the Welsh Rugby Union have confirmed that scrum-half Dwayne Peel has been withdrawn from the squad for Saturday's match against Italy in Rome due to a torn hamstring.