Slade and Curry back for England but Mitchell out

Centre Henry Slade and flanker Tom Curry person recovered from wounded to marque England's 36-man squad for the autumn internationals, but first-choice scrum-half Alex Mitchell is retired with a cervix problem.

Slade had enarthrosis country aft the summertime circuit to New Zealand and has not played for Exeter yet this season, portion Sale's Curry made his instrumentality from a concussion lay-off successful Friday's triumph implicit Newcastle.

Mitchell's lack means Ben Spencer, Jack van Poortvliet and Harry Randall are the 3 named scrum-halves.

Sale's George Ford volition proceed his rehabiltation from a torn quad musculus arsenic portion of the squad, with Marcus Smith and Fin Smith the different specializer stand-offs.

Elsewhere Harlequins centre Luke Northmore replaces the injured Fraser Dingwall, with Saracens' Alex Lozowski, hunting his archetypal headdress successful six years, and Ollie Lawrence the different midfield options.

Back enactment Tom Willis fails to marque the squad contempt an awesome commencement to the season, but Tom Curry's duplicate member Ben is included, on with Harlequins fig 8 Alex Dombrandt, who is connected the mode backmost from a breached hand.

England statesman their autumn run against New Zealand connected 2 November, earlier matches against Australia, South Africa and Japan.

"Facing New Zealand successful the opening lucifer is simply a tremendous accidental for america to trial ourselves against 1 of the champion teams successful the world," said caput manager Steve Borthwick.

"Having lone played astatine Allianz Stadium doubly successful our past 15 games, it volition beryllium fantastic to instrumentality and play successful beforehand of our location crowd."

More to follow.

England’s 36-player squad:

Forwards

Fin Baxter (Harlequins, 2 caps)

Ollie Chessum (Leicester Tigers, 23 caps)

Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 115 caps)

Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale Sharks, 41 caps)

Chandler Cunningham-South (Harlequins, 7 caps)

Ben Curry (Sale Sharks, 5 caps)

Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 53 caps)

Theo Dan (Saracens, 14 caps)

Trevor Davison (Northampton Saints, 2 caps)

Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins, 17 caps)

Ben Earl (Saracens, 33 caps)

Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby, 31 caps)

Ellis Genge (Bristol Bears, 62 caps)

Jamie George (Saracens, 93 caps)

Nick Isiekwe (Saracens, 11 caps)

Maro Itoje (Saracens, 84 caps)

Joe Marler (Harlequins, 95 caps)

George Martin (Leicester Tigers, 15 caps)

Will Stuart (Bath Rugby, 41 caps)

Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby, 38 caps)

Backs

Elliot Daly (Saracens, 69 caps)

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs, 6 caps)

Tommy Freeman (Northampton Saints, 11 caps)

George Furbank (Northampton Saints, 11 caps)

Ollie Lawrence (Bath Rugby, 27 caps)

Alex Lozowski (Saracens, 5 caps)

Luke Northmore (Harlequins, 2 caps)

Harry Randall (Bristol Bears, 7 caps)

Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks, 1 cap)

Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 65 caps)

Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton Saints, 2 caps)

Fin Smith (Northampton Saints, 5 caps)

Marcus Smith (Harlequins, 35 caps)

Ben Spencer (Bath Rugby, 6 caps)

Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers, 34 caps)

Jack van Poortvliet (Leicester Tigers, 14 caps)

Rehabilitation: George Ford (Sale Sharks)

Not considered for selection: Alex Coles (Northampton Saints), Joe Cokanasiga (Bath Rugby), Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints), Alex Mitchell (Northampton Saints), Will Muir (Bath Rugby), Max Ojomoh (Bath Rugby), Raffi Quirke (Sale Sharks), Bevan Rodd (Sale Sharks).