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Scotland add Dougie Fife and Ben Toolis to World Cup training squad
ESPN Staff
June 29, 2015
Dougie Fife
Dougie Fife© (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

Scotland have added Edinburgh Rugby duo Dougie Fife and Ben Toolis to their Rugby World Cup training squad.

The pair have been called up as cover for Glasgow Warriors lock Tim Swinson and Saracens centre Duncan Taylor, both of whom require corrective surgery to ongoing ankle and shoulder complaints respectively.

Swinson and Taylor are expected to be unavailable for up to three months, which rules them out of the national team's four warm-up games ahead of the World Cup.

Fife, 24, won three of his six caps during the 2015 Six Nations and scored the only try in his side's 15-8 loss to France in Paris. Toolis, meanwhile, won his first Test cap as a replacement during the same tournament. 

Vern Cotter's side kick off their campaign against Japan at Kingsholm on September 23.

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