Son of World Cup winner one of 16 uncapped players in England squad

Steve Borthwick has named a 36-man England training squad that will assemble for a four-day training camp ahead of their clash with a France XV at Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium next week.

The squad is bereft of its British and Irish Lions contingent – including Jamie George and Asher Opoku-Fordjour – as well as players from Bath and Leicester Tigers, who face each other in the Gallagher Premiership final this weekend.

Players from losing semi-finalists Bristol Bears and Sale Sharks have joined the squad, although Harry Randall is unsurprisingly ruled out, having left the field of play in the defeat to Bath clutching his shoulder. His team-mate Joe Batley has also not been considered for selection.

Despite making the Premiership team of the season, Bristol winger Gabriel Ibitoye once again finds himself out of the squad.

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Full-back George Furbank, who has not featured since a gruesome collision in the early minutes of the Investec Champions Cup final, will be in camp for rehabilitation, while those with long-term injuries – Ollie Lawrence, Alex Lozowski and George Martin – were not considered for selection.

Borthwick has included 16 uncapped players in his squad, as he prepares for a busy two months ahead, which also includes two Tests against Argentina and a one-off Test against the USA.

One of those 16 is Saracens’ 21-year-old scrum-half Charlie Bracken, son of World Cup winner Kyran. With Randall injured, Alex Mitchell with the Lions, and Jack van Poortvliet and Ben Spencer preparing for the Premiership final, the Saracen, who only has 10 Premiership appearances to his name, joins fellow uncapped scrum-half Will Porter in the squad.

The squad for the tour of the Americas will be announced on Monday, June 23.

England training squad
Forwards
Fin Baxter (Harlequins)
Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs)
Arthur Clark (Gloucester Rugby)
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 Rugby)
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 Rugby)
Seb Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby)
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)