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Tigers' England quartet face Wallabies

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Leicester Tigers players Dan Cole, Tom Croft, Toby Flood and Ben Youngs have retained their place in the England side to face Australia at Twickenham on Saturday.

All four started against New Zealand last weekend and have been selected to face the Qantas Wallabies in the second Investec International this Saturday (2.30pm)

England team manager Martin Johnson has made one change to his starting XV with Northampton Saints hooker Dylan Hartley, who scored a second half try against New Zealand as a replacement, coming in for Leeds Carnegie's Steve Thompson.

The only other change in the match day squad comes on the bench where experienced London Wasps lock Simon Shaw replaces Gloucester Rugby's David Attwood.

Lewis Moody will lead the side out for the fifth successive game with the Cook Cup at stake.

England team to face Australia
15 Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
14 Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
13 Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby)
12 Shontayne Hape (Bath Rugby)
11 Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks)
10 Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
9 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
1 Andrew Sheridan (Sale Sharks)
2 Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
4 Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)
5 Tom Palmer (Stade Francais)
6 Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers)
7 Lewis Moody (Bath Rugby, captain)
8 Nick Easter (Harlequins)

Replacements
16 Steve Thompson (Leeds Carnegie)
17 David Wilson (Bath Rugby)
18 Simon Shaw (London Wasps)
19 Hendre Fourie (Leeds Carnegie)
20 Danny Care (Harlequins)
21 Charlie Hodgson (Sale Sharks)
22 Delon Armitage (London Irish)