Cardiff's Thomas given three-game ban for red card

Wales centre Ben Thomas has been fixed a three-game prohibition aft his 20-minute reddish paper successful Cardiff's United Rugby Championship (URC) triumph against Lions.

The 26-year-old will miss Saturday's crippled astatine Munster (19:45 BST) and nan location fixture against Connacht nan pursuing weekend.

If he completes nan World Rugby Coaching Intervention Programme his prohibition will beryllium reduced to 2 games and he will beryllium disposable for nan derby against Dragons successful information 4 of nan URC.

Thomas was penalised for a vulnerable clearout connected scrum-half Nico Steyn successful nan build-up to a disallowed effort for flanker Taine Basham aft 33 minutes astatine nan Arms Park.

Referee Filippo Russo showed him a yellowish paper aft being alerted to nan incident by TMO Stefano Roscini and it was upgraded to reddish connected review.

Cardiff went connected to triumph nan URC opener 33-20, fighting backmost from being 20-14 down erstwhile backmost to 15 men.

A URC disciplinary update stated that Thomas "accepted he had committed an enactment of foul play which warranted a reddish card".

The introduction constituent for nan offence was six weeks but nan centre had 3 games taken disconnected for his bully record.

Thomas started each 10 of Wales' Tests past play and returned to his favoured position of wrong centre nether caretaker leader Matt Sherratt, who has since near Cardiff to go world onslaught coach.