{"id":22055,"date":"2025-11-05T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/noah-caluori-starts-for-england-a-against-all-blacks-xv\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:58:48","slug":"noah-caluori-starts-for-england-a-against-all-blacks-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/noah-caluori-starts-for-england-a-against-all-blacks-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Caluori starts for England A against All Blacks XV"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Breakthrough teenage wing Noah Caluori can press his case for a senior Test call-up after being named in England A’s starting XV to play an All Blacks XV on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 19-year-old scored five tries on his first Prem start for Saracens last month and was named in England’s initial autumn internationals squad.<\/p>\n

After being left out of the senior group preparing to face Fiji on Saturday, Caluori has been picked ahead of Leicester’s Adam Radwan to start the second-string fixture at Bath’s Recreation Ground.<\/p>\n

Caluori’s prodigious leap and 6ft 4in frame have marked him out as a potent aerial threat. <\/p>\n

England head coach Steve Borthwick labelled him an “exciting talent”, while Saracens team-mate Owen Farrell has described his ability to regain possession as “nuts”., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Exeter’s in-form back row Ethan Roots, who won the most recent of his four caps against France in March 2024, captains the side.<\/p>\n

Bath’s Max Ojomoh is at inside centre and covers fly-half, with no specialist back-up to Charlie Atkinson on the bench.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Bristol captain Fitz Harding could make his first representative appearance for any England side off the bench. Young Bath front-row pair Kepu Tuipulotu and Vilikesa Sela are also among the replacements.<\/p>\n

England A: <\/b>Hodge; Caluori, Hall, Ojomoh (vc), Hassell-Collins; Atkinson, McParland; Iyogun, Blamire, Fasogbon, Lockett, Batley, Roots (c), Pearson, Fisilau<\/p>\n

Replacements:<\/b><\/i> Tuipulotu, Haffar, Sela, Bamber, Harding, Englefield, Ma’asi-White, Radwan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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