Wales star Jonathan Davies ruled out of Six Nations with foot injury suffered against Australia

Surgery: Jonathan Davies will be out for six months
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Chris Jones14 November 2017

Wales star Jonathan Davies is set to miss the Six Nations after being ruled out for six months with a foot injury suffered in the defeat to Australia on Saturday.

The Welsh Rugby Union confirmed that Davies requires surgery. It is a major blow for Wales and Scarlets to lose Davies, the centre who was the Lions player of the series against New Zealand this year.

He went off during the dying seconds of Wales’s 13th successive defeat against the Wallabies and looked in considerable discomfort.

Although Wales head coach Warren Gatland is set to make several changes for Saturday’s game against Georgia, Davies was an integral part of his autumn plans. New Zealand are Wales’s opponents on November 25 and they play South Africa a week later.

The 29-year-old missed the 2015 World Cup due to a knee ligament injury but he has been in world-class form throughout this year.

Harlequins centre Jamie Roberts was called into Wales’s autumn Test squad as injury cover on Monday. Roberts, who has won 93 caps, missed out on a place in the original 36-man party announced by Gatland last month but he is now on duty at Wales’ training base.

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