LONDON: Six Nations Grand Slam-winners Owen Farrell and Joe Marler will both be available for their clubs' respective European finals and England's tour of Australia after they each received two-week bans on Thursday.
England goal-kicker Farrell was suspended after being cited for a dangerous tackle on Wasps' scrum-half Dan Robson early in the second half of Saracens' 24-17 European Champions Cup semi-final win last Saturday.
Meanwhile prop Marler was cited for kicking Grenoble hooker Arnaud Heguy during last Friday's European Challenge Cup semi-final, a match London club Quins won 30-6 at their Twickenham Stoop ground.
Both Farrell and Marler were banned until May but that means they will each be available for their clubs' European finals in Lyon and England's three-Test tour of Australia in June.
Premiership leaders Saracens are bidding for a domestic and European double, with their European Champions Cup final against Paris's Racing 92 in Lyon on May 14.
A day earlier, Harlequins play Montpellier in the second-tier Challenge Cup final.
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