WASPS flanker Joe Worsley wins his first cap as England coach Clive Woodward makes six changes from the side that lost to the All Blacks last weekend for Friday’s key Group B match with Tonga. Jonny Wilkinson is replaced by Northampton fly-half Paul Grayson and Jeremy Guscott loses out to fit-again Will Greenwood for a match England must win to progress to a quarter-final play-off.
England:
Matt Perry; Austin Healey, Will Greenwood, Phil de Glanville, Dan Luger; Paul Grayson, Matt Dawson; Lawrence Dallaglio, Richard Hill, Joe Worsley, Garath Archer, Martin Johnson (capt), Phil Vickery, Phil Greening, Graham Rowntree Replacements: Nick Beal, Mike Catt, Jonny Wilkinson, Neil Back, Danny Grewcock, Jason Leonard, Richard Cockerill