Borthwick names 16 rookies for mid-year Tests

SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT: England coach Steve Borthwick has named a 36-player squad for a four-day training camp at Pennyhill Park.

The squad is sans players selected for The British & Irish Lions, nor players from Bath and Leicester Tigers, who are preparing for this Saturday’ s Premiership Final.

The camp forms part of the preparations for the upcoming match between an England XV and a France XV at Twickenham on Saturday June 21.

The touring squad for the Tests against Argentina and the United States will be announced on Monday, June 23.

Borthwick has included 16 uncapped players in his squad.

One of those 16 is Saracens’ 21-year-old scrumhalf Charlie Bracken, son of World Cup winner Kyran.

George Furbank (Northampton Saints).will join the camp for hid rehabilitation.

Not considered for selection due to injury include Joe Batley (Bristol Bears), Ollie Lawrence (Bath Rugby), Alex Lozowski (Saracens), George Martin (Leicester Tigers), Harry Randall (Bristol Bears).

England

Forwards: Fin Baxter (Harlequins), Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs), Arthur Clark (Gloucester), Alex Coles (Northampton Saints), Chandler Cunningham-South (Harlequins), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks), Theo Dan (Saracens), Trevor Davison (Northampton Saints), Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins), Afolabi Fasogbon (Gloucester), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens), Manny Iyogun (Northampton Saints), Jack Kenningham (Harlequins), George Kloska (Bristol Bears), Curtis Langdon (Northampton Saints), Tom Lockett (Northampton Saints), Gabriel Oghre (Bristol Bears), Tom Pearson (Northampton Saints), Bevan Rodd (Sale Sharks), Tom Willis (Saracens).

Backs: Charlie Atkinson (Gloucester), Seb Atkinson (Gloucester), Oscar Beard (Harlequins), Charlie Bracken (Saracens), Joe Carpenter (Sale Sharks), Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints), Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs), George Ford (Sale Sharks), Rekeiti Ma’asi-White (Sale Sharks), Cadan Murley (Harlequins) , Luke Northmore (Harlequins), Will Porter (Harlequins), Raffi Quirke (Sale Sharks), Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs), Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton Saints).