Edinburgh Reivers forward Simon Taylor capped a memorable two days with a recall on Thursday to the Scotland squad for the Six Nations clash against England at Twickenham on March 3.

The 21-year-old broke his hand against Australia in November and has yet to feature in the tournament so far.

But after being selected in the provisional British Lions squad on Wednesday, Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has recalled flanker Taylor in place of Jason White.

But stand-off Gregor Townsend, who plays his club rugby for French side Castres, is still not fit enough to return to the squad from the knee injury he sustained just four minutes into the opening game in France.

But McGeechan revealed he would not be without Townsend for too long.

McGeechan said: "Gregor will be back with us in full training next week. Gregor sees a specialist again tomorrow (Friday) and the indications are he is now running again at 100 percent in a straight line.

"The specialist wanted a look at him simply to give him the go ahead to do full training.

"But I don't want to rush him or think that there is a constraint on how much he can or can't do next week when we are building up to a game like England.

"We wanted him involved but I don't think it is fair to say that we know he will be 100 percent by the Saturday. I don't think it is fair to him or to Duncan Hodge.

Squad:
Backs: Alan Bulloch (Glasgow Caledonians), James Craig (Glasgow Caledonians), Duncan Hodge (Edinburgh Reivers), John Leslie (Northampton/Eng), Kenny Logan (London Wasps/Eng), James McLaren (Glasgow Caledonians), Cameron Murray (Edinburgh Reivers), Andy Nicol (Glasgow Caledonians), Chris Paterson (Edinburgh Reivers), Bryan Redpath (Sale/Eng).

Forwards: Gordon Bulloch (Glasgow Caledonians), Stuart Grimes (Newcastle/Eng), Martin Leslie (Edinburgh Reivers), Gordon McIlwham (Glasgow Caledonians), Richard Metcalfe (Edinburgh Reivers), Scott Murray (Saracens/Eng), Jon Petrie (Glasgow Caledonians), Budge Pountney (Northampton/Eng), Steve Scott (Edinburgh Reivers), Tom Smith (Brive/Fra), Matthew Stewart (Northampton/Eng), Simon Taylor (Edinburgh Reivers)