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Trio tour OZ with England U-18

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Three Leicester Tigers players have been included in the England U-18 squad to travel to Australia in August for a summer development tour.

Tigers trio Tom Collett, Greig Tonks and Ben Youngs have been named in a 32-man squad who will contest four games over three weeks, including a match against the Australian Schools at Ballymore in Brisbane.

They will be primarily based at the Sydney Academy of Sport and will play the Northern Territory Institute of Sport, New South Wales Combined High Schools and Australian Schools 'A' in development games before taking on Australia Schools in an international test match at the end of the tour.

The squad is comprised predominantly of this year's England U-18s Six Nations side that defeated France, Scotland and Ireland. Only a narrow defeat to Wales saw England fail to complete a clean sweep. The squad also includes four players from the successful England U-16s squad, which won the Four Nations tournament in April.

Conor O'Shea, director of the Rugby Football Union's National Academy, said: "This is a tremendous development opportunity for some of our best young players and it will allow them to gain experience in a different environment and to test themselves against their southern-hemisphere counterparts at an early stage in their development. I am sure we will be seeing a number of these players in the years to come both within the Guinness Premiership and in the international arena."

England U-18 squad:

Greg Bateman (Cranleigh School/NEC Harlequins)
Alex Brown (Dulwich College/Saracens)
Calum Clark (Barnard Castle/Leeds Tykes)
James Clark (London Irish)
Tom Collett (Wyggeston & QEI College/Leicester Tigers)
James Currie (Millfield School/Bath Rugby)
Reece Durrance (Seevic College/Saracens)
Carl Fearns (Sedbergh School/Sale Sharks)
Alex Gray (Barnard Castle/Newcastle Falcons)
Graham Kitchener (Adams Grammar/Worcester Warriors)
Courtney Lawes (Moulton College/Northampton Saints)
Joe Marler (Sussex Downs/NEC Harlequins)
Ben Moon (Ivybridge Community College/SWERA)
Jacob Rowan  (Bradford Grammar/Leeds Tykes)
Tom Sargeant  (Royal Grammar Guildford/NEC Harlequins)
Joe Trayfoot (Epsom College/NEC Harlequins)
Dan Williams (Ivybridge Community College/SWERA)
Tom Casson (Sedbergh School/Sale Sharks)
Rory Clegg (Barnard Castle/Newcastle Falcons)
Luke Eves (Colston's Collegiate/Bristol Rugby)
Matthew Keyte (Reigate Grammar/NEC Harlequins)
David Lewis (Ivybridge Community College/SWERA)
Rob Miller (Keswick School/Newcastle Falcons)
Charlie Sharples (St Peter's High/Gloucester Rugby)
Mike Stanley (Oaklands College/Saracens)
Sebastian Stegmann (Cranleigh School/NEC Harlequins)
Greig Tonks (Nottingham High/Leicester Tigers)
Henry Trinder (Hartpury College/Gloucester Rugby)
Jack Wallace (Aylesbury Grammar/London Wasps)
Ben Williams (Bryanston School/Bath Rugby)
Oliver Winterbottom (Rednock/Gloucester Rugby)
Ben Youngs (Wyggeston & QEI College/Leicester Tigers)