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Fly-half Finn Russell has been called into the Scotland squad for Sunday's Autumn Test against New Zealand in place of the injured Adam Hastings.
Hastings has returned to his club Gloucester after being forced off against Fiji with a head knock and is also having a knee injury assessed.
Russell, 30, was omitted from coach Gregor Townsend's initial squad, with Hastings and Blair Kinghorn preferred.
"If Adam is out, Finn would be in the mix," Townsend said after the Fiji win.
Lions stand-off Russell pressed his case for a recall when he scored a try and kicked three conversions and a penalty for his club Racing 92 as they defeated Perpignan 44-20 in France's Top 14.
Townsend said he had left Russell out of his initial squad because of question marks over the number 10's "form and consistency" levels.
The former Lions and Scotland fly-half said he had not spoken to Russell since informing him last month he was not in the squad, but the head coach insisted that is not unusual.
New Zealand crushed Wales 55-23 in Cardiff while Scotland laboured to a 28-12 win against Fiji.
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