Rugby World Cup: Sarah Hunter to become most-capped England international

Sarah Hunter made her England debut successful 2007

Captain Sarah Hunter volition go the most-capped England planetary and the astir capped-women's subordinate erstwhile she makes her 138th quality successful Sunday's World Cup quarter-final with Australia.

Abby Dow starts connected the helping arsenic the pass Claudia MacDonald drops retired of the 23 with a calf strain.

Hunter said the caps grounds is "the happening I americium astir arrogant of successful my life".

The 37-year-old made her England debut successful 2007 and became skipper aft she won the World Cup with the Red Roses successful 2014.

Hunter led the broadside arsenic they mislaid the 2017 last to New Zealand and has won 10 Six Nations titles successful her 15-year career.

England: Rowlands; Thompson, Scarratt, Heard, Dow; Harrison, Infante; Cornborough, Cokayne, Bern, Aldcroft, Ward, Matthews, M Packer, Hunter (capt).

Replacements: Davies, Botterman, Muir, Galligan, Cleall, L Packer, Aitchison, Kildunne.

England's starting XV seemed settled aft England's archetypal 2 excavation games, but caput manager Simon Middleton has made immoderate astonishing changes successful the backline arsenic the knockout stages begin.

Heard, 27, made her archetypal planetary quality for 3 years successful September but impressed successful a player-of-the-match show against South Africa past weekend.

With Rowland moved from 12 to full-back, Ellie Kildunne drops to the bench.

The guardant battalion is arsenic expected and prop Sarah Bern starts arsenic she earns a 50th headdress for her country.

Among the replacements, hooker Lark Davies is acceptable to marque her archetypal quality of the tourney aft recovering from an ankle injury.

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