Masterful Ford can provide England X issue on Twickenham return

Maro Itoje v Dafydd Jenkins

Two locks alike in mixing brawn and brains, however set vastly aside when it comes to expertise. Saracens star Itoje will win his 78th England cap on Saturday, whereas Jenkins will likely be claiming his 14th.

That Wales’ 21-year-old Exeter lock is already Test captain speaks volumes on his rise and additional promise.

Itoje has turned from younger tyro into world-class pack totem, nevertheless, and is aware of precisely unsettle, then subdue, his direct opponents.

Fraser Dingwall v Nick Tompkins

Saracen Tompkins has developed into Wales’s all-court centre, mixing effective distribution with ample physicality to chop it within the Test enviornment.

Dingwall can do worse than look to Tompkins’s instance as to add gainline success to a recreation primarily based extra on creativity and imaginative and prescient.

For far too lengthy, England have didn’t develop a No 12 that may thrive in overlaying all bases. Dingwall will hope to finish that hiatus.

George Ford v Ioan Lloyd

Fly-half Ford just about already operates as an auxiliary backs coach. He doesn’t even flip 31 till subsequent month, but already boasts the expertise and nous to behave on the degree of a top-ranking coach.

He will likely be determined to make the No10 shirt his personal within the coming weeks, whereas Lloyd is incomes simply his fourth cap and is barely a part-time 10. Has all the talents, however should add prudence to the attacking prowess.