Vyvyan To Stake Claim

By Ridley Hall
June 17 2002

Hugh Vyvyan captains England A in Argentina tonight and has a good chance of making it into the Test squad for Saturday. The leadership qualities recognised by Rob Andrew have now been recognised by Clive Woodward and a good performance could well see Hugh line up alongside Ben Kay at the weekend.

Alex Codling is the other choice and he's on the bench tonight so Hugh has the pitch to himself.

Second row looks like being the least of our problems next season with Grimes and Vyvyan both rising stars for their respective countries.

Tom May gets a well deserved start in the centre with Dave Walder at fly half.

They will be hoping for a place in the squad which takes on Argentina who are still celebrating the thrilling 28-27 win over France.

England A: T Beim (Gloucester); D Rees (Bristol), T May (Newcastle), K Sorrell (Saracens), M Cueto (Sale); D Walder (Newcastle), N Walshe (Sale); T Woodman (Gloucester), M Regan (Bath), R Morris (Northampton), R Fidler (Gloucester), H Vyvyan (Newcastle, capt), A Balding (Leicester), D Danaher (London Irish), P Anglesea (Sale)

Replacements: S Thompson (Northampton), D Flatman (Saracens), A Codling (Harlequins), A Sanderson (Sale), A Gomarsall (Gloucester), C Hodgson (Sale), T Stimpson (Leicester)