Head coach Eddie Jones has selected the 24-year-old at outside centre, in place of Jonathan Joseph, for the autumn worldwide at Twickenham.
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Jonny May, Courtney Lawes, George Ford and Owen Farrell all crossed for tries, with Farrell kicking 17 points.
South Africa: Willie le Roux, Ruan Combrinck, Francois Venter, Damian de Allende, JP Pietersen, Patrick Lambie, Rudy Paige; Tendai Mtawariri, Adriaan Strauss (captain), Vincent Koch, Eben Etzebeth, Lood de Jager, Willem Alberts, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Warren Whiteley. Pat Lambie followed his 45-metre penalty with a drop goal from in front of the posts but the Springboks were unable to slow down the pace of the game.
“But we fought our way out of that and came away very well at half time”.
“We want to change the history of results between England and South Africa”.
Since then England have gone unbeaten, winning a grand slam in the Six Nations and winning all three tests against Australia on their summer tour.
“Rugby’s not predictable and we’re trying to teach the team to be adaptable”, said Jones, who has reunited England’s World Cup back row for the first time in his reign but with Chris Robshaw and Tom Wood swapping places either side of Billy Vunipola. Farrell converted and England led 7-6.
England have not beaten South Africa for 10 years, but new boss Eddie Jones believes that he might have found a way to outsmart their opponents. Jerome Garces warned Hartley and the French referee’s words appeared to have some effect.
As expected, South Africa started strongly looking to bully England off the park and gain the upper hand at the breakdown and the set-piece – however, England soaked up the early pressure and took control as the visitors crumbled into an unstructured mess.
“He did really well, he’s got the ability to make outside breaks, that left-foot kick and it gives you another attacking weapon”, said Jones.
The match will also be the debut for Wasps centre Elliot Daly, who replaces Joseph. Garces decided Brown had not knocked on and Farrell converted. George Ford, 9. Ben Youngs, 1.
“Over the last couple of years we have gained a bit of confidence overseas playing in the northern hemisphere but it’s a new chapter, it’s not going to help us on the day”, he said. But this was a brief interruption to England’s dominance. “We want to write our own history”, the captain said.
Youngs was nearly at a stroll as he exploited a gap at the breakdown, easily sidestepping past flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit with a dummy before supplying Ford with the scoring pass for their third try.
Scrum-half Youngs was in inspired form for England, creating two tries of similar ilk.
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England claimed the opening try after 12 minutes when May, whose last Twickenham outing in December ended with a knee injury that ended his season, showed he had not lost any of his explosive pace, as he scooted to the corner from a clean lineout ball.
