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Tigers out in force with England

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All six Leicester Tigers in England's Rugby World Cup squad will be involved against Romania for their third Pool B clash on Saturday.

Forwards Louis Deacon and Tom Croft return to the starting line-up alongside Tigers colleagues Manu Tuilagi, Ben Youngs and Dan Cole, while Toby Flood is among the replacements.

Mark Cueto returns from injury to win his 54th cap in the Otago Stadium in Dunedin, while hooker Lee Mears and prop David Wilson will hope to make their first appearances of the tournament from the bench.

England (v Romania, Saturday 7am UK time)
15 Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
14 Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
13 Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers)
12 Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby)
11 Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks)
10 Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon)
9 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
1 Alex Corbisiero (London Irish)
2 Steve Thompson (London Wasps)
3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
4 Louis Deacon (Leicester Tigers)

5 Tom Palmer (Stade Francais)
6 Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers)
7 Lewis Moody (Bath Rugby) (c)
8 James Haskell (Ricoh Black Rams)

Replacements
16 Lee Mears (Bath Rugby)
17 David Wilson (Bath Rugby)
18 Simon Shaw (Unattached)
19 Tom Wood (Northampton Saints)
20 Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens)
21 Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
22 Delon Armitage (London Irish)