Willis suffered a neck injury during England’s win over ChileSteve Borthwick’s side play their quarter-final next Sunday
Sam Underhill has been called into England’s World Cup squad as a replacement for the injured Jack Willis. The tough-tackling Bath flanker joined his teammates in Lille on Sunday and comes straight into contention for England’s quarter-final next weekend.
Underhill was part of England’s wider training squad early in the summer but was released in July – a move which is understood to have stunned a host of his teammates. Tom Pearson, Tom Willis and Alex Dombrandt all remained in camp for longer but Underhill has World Cup experience, having been such an important member of Eddie Jones’s side in 2019, and Borthwick has turned to the 27-year-old after losing Willis to a neck injury.
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