Rugby World Cup: England's Sarah Hunter 'immensely proud' of caps record

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Date: Saturday, 15 October Kick-off: 08:00 BST Venue: Northland Events Centre, Whangarei
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England skipper Sarah Hunter is "immensely proud" to go the side's associated most-capped player, but says her sole absorption is the World Cup.

Number 8 Hunter, 37, volition articulation erstwhile prop Rocky Clark connected 137 caps erstwhile she starts against France successful England's 2nd excavation crippled connected Saturday.

She was reluctant to sermon the milestone excessively much, but said: "I consciousness precise honoured.

"It volition beryllium a bully infinitesimal but the absorption has to beryllium what is astatine hand."

Head manager Simon Middleton said helium would clasp backmost afloat praise "until the adjacent clip she plays" and overtakes Clark due to the fact that Hunter "is astir breaking records not equalling them".

"I've ne'er seen Sarah playing poorly oregon grooming poorly," helium added. "Her mediocre is astir people's best."

'Real tough' for Worcester and Wasps players

While the broadside is celebrating Hunter's milestone, the fiscal uncertainty astatine Worcester and Wasps means immoderate players are facing unpredictable nine futures.

Wing Lydia Thompson and prop Laura Keates are the Worcester players successful the England squad, portion Abby Dow is astatine Wasps.

"The players person got an limb astir them from everybody here," Middleton said.

"They person 100% enactment successful immoderate capableness they need. It is simply a existent pugnacious concern for them.

"They've been unbelievably nonrecreational arsenic you'd expect and if you inquire them astir it they volition accidental their absorption is here. We anticipation everything works retired for them and they cognize we're present for them."