England hooker Cowan-Dickie could miss Six Nations

Luke Cowan-Dickie scored 2 tries for Exeter earlier going disconnected injured during their triumph implicit Northampton

Exeter and England hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie volition miss astatine slightest the commencement of the Six Nations with a "serious" ankle wounded that is apt to request surgery.

Cowan-Dickie has not travelled with the Chiefs to South Africa for their Champions Cup lucifer against the Bulls.

England statesman their Six Nations run against Scotland astatine Twickenham connected 4 February.

"Luke's wounded looks comparatively serious," Exeter manager of rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.

"He's seeing a surgeon today; that volition possibly springiness america a much definitive result and timing."

Cowan-Dickie has been capped 41 times for England and is successful his last fewer months with Exeter aft signing for Top 14 broadside Montpellier adjacent season.

Baxter suggested, however, that the guardant could instrumentality earlier the extremity of the existent campaign.

"It does look similar an cognition is going to beryllium required but that said, astatine this stage, it wouldn't beryllium a season-ending situation," Baxter added.

"We could inactive spot him backmost for a bully chunk of the play if rehab and everything goes well."

Scotland's Hogg besides sidelined

Exeter full-back Stuart Hogg has besides not travelled to Pretoria arsenic helium is inactive suffering from a bottommost problem.

The Scotland planetary has not played successful Exeter's 2 astir caller matches.

"He ran connected Saturday morning, was doing a fittingness trial to spot if determination was a anticipation of him coming here," Baxter continued.

"But his bottommost wounded was inactive excessively sore for him to tally astatine immoderate velocity oregon astatine immoderate region truthful we had to telephone disconnected Saturday."