SECOND-ROW:
4. Maro Itoje (Saracens)
5 .Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)
BACK-ROW:
6. Ben Earl (Saracens)
7. Tom Curry (Sale Sharks)
8. Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
Would have selected Gloucester number 8 Zach Mercer, but Borthwick didn’t name the dynamic back-rower in his squad.