Six Nations evening headlines as Wayne Pivac told to start Jonathan Davies against England after strong 13-minute Scotland cameo

Here are the latest rugby evening headlines on Sunday, February 13.

Former Wales centre Tom Shanklin believes Jonathan Davies made such an impact against Scotland that he deserves a starting berth against England at Twickenham.

Wayne Pivac's men head to English rugby headquarters in a fortnight - on Saturday, February 26 - off the back of a tense 20-17 win over Scotland in Cardiff.

The 33-year-old Scarlet Davies, who earned his 100th Test cap on Saturday, made a big impact off the bench when brought on after 67 minutes and crucially ripped the ball from Duhan van der Merwe to stop one dangerous looking Scotland foray.

While Shanklin doesn't believe Davies deserves a start based on Scarlets form pre-Six Nations, he believes he did enough during his 13-minute cameo to justify lining up from the off at Twickenham.

"He probably doesn't deserve to start at the moment if you're talking about club form," he explained on the Rugby Union Daily podcast.

"Yeah, there'd be loads of credit in the bank but there's probably players in the United Rugby Championship that are playing better than him, but it just shows what experience he has.

"He comes on, he takes the ball off Van Der Merwe straight away but it's also the stuff he does without the ball. There was a clear difference in line speed when he came on, in those outside channels, something that Wales lacked.

"Owen Watkin, Nick Tompkins - maybe they just don't have the confidence to rush up out of the line and get into players' eyelines because they think they're going to expose themselves. He did it and he forced Finn Russell, he forced Blair Kinghorn back inside to where the heavy traffic was that was clear.

"In that small space of time, he's probably done enough to start