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First call for Youngs and Kitchener

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The uncapped Tom Youngs and Graham Kitchener are among nine Leicester Tigers players named in the 42-man England squad for this summer's tour to South Africa.

Tigers centre Anthony Allen is recalled and hopes to add to his two previous caps, while the squad also includes clubmates Dan Cole, Toby Flood, Geoff Parling, Manu Tuilagi, Ben Youngs, and Thomas Waldrom.

England head coach Stuart Lancaster said: “There is a real excitement about this squad. We have a massive challenge ahead of us but it is one that everybody is looking forward to.

"While certain players are not available because of inevitable injuries at this time of the season, we have been able to select the bulk of the squad from the RBS 6 Nations and the Saxons, while also taking with us four of the Under-20 team which reached last June’s Junior World Championship final."

Tigers duo Tom Croft and Louis Deacon are among a group of players not considered due to injury.

England squad for South Africa
Forwards (23)

Mouritz Botha (Saracens)
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
Alex Corbisiero (London Irish)
Paul Doran Jones (Northampton Saints)
Phil Dowson (Northampton Saints)
Carl Fearns (Bath)
Joe Gray (Harlequins)
Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
James Haskell (Otago Highlanders)
Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs)
Graham Kitchener (Leicester Tigers)
Joe Launchbury (London Wasps)
Joe Marler (Harlequins)
Lee Mears (Bath)
Ben Morgan (Scarlets)
Matt Mullan (Worcester Warriors)
Tom Palmer (Stade Francais)
Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers)
Chris Robshaw (Harlequins) (c)
George Robson (Harlequins)
Matt Stevens (Saracens)
Thomas Waldrom (Leicester Tigers)
Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Backs (19)
Anthony Allen (Leicester Tigers)

Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
Brad Barritt (Saracens)
Mike Brown (Harlequins)
Danny Care (Harlequins)
Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints)
Owen Farrell (Saracens)
Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
Alex Goode (Saracens)
Charlie Hodgson (Saracens)
Jonathan Joseph (London Irish)
George Lowe (Harlequins)
Ugo Monye (Harlequins)
David Strettle (Saracens)
Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers)
Jordan Turner-Hall (Harlequins)
Christian Wade (London Wasps)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)