Finn Russell and Cameron Redpath ‘significant’ injury blow as Scotland duo face battle to play again this season

Bath are currently second in the Gallagher Premiership table with four regular-season games left as they target reaching the play-offs and the final in early June. Scotland are due to tour North and South America in July, with games scheduled against Canada, the United States, Chile and Uruguay. An injury update from Bath’s head of medical Rory Murray described the injuries to both players as “significant” and said their availability would be “assessed weekly”.

“We have assessed them properly, they have gone for multiple scans and opinions and I trust Rory to get them back into our team as quickly as possible,” said Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan.

“The reason why we say weekly is it is too difficult to put a specific timeline on, so as soon as one or both of them are back, we will select them.

“For us now it is one focus – the Premiership. It is a two-week block, then a week away and then another two-week block – and then we will know where we are at in terms of the rest of the season.

“So I am definitely not going to speculate. We will make that decision as every week goes by and hopefully we will see them back sooner than later.”

Russell, 31, has helped transformed Bath’s fortunes since joining from French club Racing 92 and impressed for Scotland during the Guinness Six Nations.

Van Graan added on his injury: “The injury is what we call significant, so what we mean by that it is not something that he will quickly run off in five or six days.

“Rory is world class in what he does. We are going to leave no stone unturned and are going to be getting him back as soon as we can.

“But internally too, from the group’s point of view, he is one of the lads.

“He had a week away with his family, now he is back in the building and is going to take rehab day by day and hopefully we can get him back on the pitch soon.”