Evans in the clear

Ospreys lock Ian Evans has escaped suspension after being red-carded in the PRO12 match against Benetton Treviso last Friday.

Evans received a red card after receiving two yellow cards in the first half of the match and faced a disciplinary hearing in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The Disciplinary Committee, chaired by John Kirk (Scotland), along with Paul Minto (Scotland) and Dr Barry O’Driscoll (Ireland), having looked at the incidents and listened to the player’s explanations, considered that the sending off was not a sufficient sanction in itself but, rather than issue a suspension, formally reprimanded Evans for the second incident, a dangerous tackle, and warned him as to his future conduct.