Friday's two stints on the sideline were deemed sufficient punishment for Hurricanes first five-eighth Beauden Barrett.

Beauden Barrett will guide the Hurricanes around Eden Park on Saturday after all.

The star Hurricanes first five-eighth was cleared to face the Blues after a Sanzaar judicial committee on Monday night ruled his sending off against the Waratahs was sufficient punishment for two deliberate knockdowns.

After initial consideration by a Sanzaar foul play review committee, Barrett was summoned to a hearing via video link in the wake of Friday's red card in the 38-28 Super Rugby win over the Waratahs in Wellington.

MARTY MELVILLE/PHOTOSPORT. Beauden Barrett hangs his head after being yellow-carded in Friday's win over the Waratahs.

Barrett was twice yellow-carded, sitting out 10 minutes of the first half and then two at the very end of the match after he was marched.

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In his finding, the judicial committee chairman Adam Casselden said:



"The judicial committee conducted a detailed review of all the available evidence, including all camera angles, and additional evidence from the player and submissions from his legal representative, Aaron Lloyd.



"With respect to sanction the judicial committee ruled, after considering a number of factors, including the player's exemplary disciplinary record, that the player's ordering off merited no further sanction."



"The player is therefore free to play and will serve no suspension."

Hurricanes coach Chris Boyd defended Barrett's actions before the hearing.

"The first one was unlucky, actually. Beauden, he's a bit of a thief in the night really. He's got a history of interceptions and that sort of stuff and I think the first one was a little bit unlucky," Boyd said.

"It hit him just above the wrist and I think he was genuinely going for an intercept. But for the sake of a few inches, or millimetres or centimetres in modern parlance, he would've been away under the posts at the other end.

"The other one was probably a little bit less unlucky."

Indeed. In fact the Waratahs weren't sure the second knockdown didn't merit a penalty try.

Barrett wasn't sure that was the case. But he expressed deep remorse about the predicament he put the team in, despite describing his actions as instinctive.

"I'm just gutted," Barrett said after the match.

Waratahs assistant coach Nathan Grey was less forgiving.

"It'd be nice to see something done about that," Grey told the Sydney Morning Herald. "You want the officials to be consistent with what they do and deliberately giving away penalties and trying to slow down possession so the opposition doesn't score, or takes three points, that's a pretty consistent tactic we see from over here [in New Zealand]."

Elsewhere in the backline wings Julian Savea and Vince Aso should be back to start this week, while captain Dane Coles is expected to be in contention to return at hooker.