George Furbank is out of England’s Nations Championship opener towards South Africa in Johannesburg on Saturday resulting from appendicitis and will miss all the summer season tour.
The total-back, who was set to make his first England look in shut to 2 years, was taken to hospital on Friday night, with Marcus Smith now most certainly to interchange him within the XV for the 4.40pm kick-off UK time.
Furbank additionally seems unsure for the video games towards Fiji on July 11 and Argentina on July 18.
England staff to face South Africa:
Beginning XV: 15 TBC, 14 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Tommy Freeman, 12 Seb Atkinson, 11 Cadan Murley, 10 Fin Smith, 9 Jack van Poortvliet; 1 Ellis Genge, 2 Jamie George (c), 3 Joe Heyes, 4 Alex Coles, 5 George Martin, 6 Ollie Chessum, 7. Tom Curry, 8 Ben Earl.
Replacements: 16 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17 Beno Obano, 18 Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 19. Charlie Ewels, 20 Man Pepper, 21 Henry Pollock, 22 Alex Mitchell, 23 Marcus Smith.(prone to change Furbank within the beginning XV)
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