England v Fiji: Courtney Lawes to captain England on 100th Test appearance

Courtney Lawes volition skipper England connected his 100th headdress successful Saturday's lucifer with Fiji astatine Twickenham, portion hooker Theo Dan makes his archetypal start.

With Owen Farrell besides suspended, George Ford is astatine fly-half.

Jonny May starts connected the helping contempt not being successful the World Cup squad and Alex Mitchell is named astatine scrum-half.

Northampton's Mitchell volition marque his archetypal quality of the summertime aft being called up to the squad pursuing the withdrawal of Jack van Poortvliet, who volition miss the World Cup aft injuring an ankle.

England caput manager Steve Borthwick said: "We couldn't beryllium prouder of Courtney connected achieving his unthinkable milestone aft 14 years of fantabulous performances for his country.

"It has been a privilege to ticker his travel and witnesser him make into a genuinely outstanding rugby player.

"Not lone is Courtney an exceptional endowment and an fantabulous professional, helium is besides a superb relation exemplary for young players each clip helium steps onto the field."

England squad to look Fiji: Steward; Malins, Lawrence, Tuilagi, May; Ford, Mitchell; Genge, Dan, Cole, Itoje, Chessum, Lawes (c), Willis, Earl.

Replacements: Walker, Marler, Stuart, Ribbans, Ludlam, Care, Smith, Marchant

More to follow.