English rugby chiefs say no action will be taken against Owen Farrell after a Test match ticket allocated to the fly-half ended up being sold for more than six times its face value.
The STG70 ($A130) ticket for the 13-10 Six Nations win against Ireland at Twickenham on Saturday sold for STG440 ($A822) the evening before the match on re-sale website Viagogo.
However, a spokesman for England's governing Rugby Football Union said no blame was attached to the 22-year-old Farrell.
"It can be confirmed that Owen Farrell has been absolved of any responsibility for the ticket issued under his name getting into the hands of a secondary ticketing operator and as such is cleared of any wrongdoing," the RFU spokesman said on Thursday.
"He will therefore not face any sanction.
"Owen is a young man of the utmost integrity and no blame can be attached to him in this matter," he added of the Saracens stand-off, capped 22 times by England and once by the British and Irish Lions in Australia last year.
"Enquiries continue as to the circumstances whereby this ticket was sold above face value, contravening the terms and conditions of sale."
Although Twickenham has a capacity of more than 80,000, England internationals at the south-west London ground routinely sell out, with tickets - distributed via rugby clubs and not usually on direct general sale - hard to come by.
For several seasons the RFU have been trying to crack down on black market sales.
