Guinness Premiership rookie prop Paul Doren-Jones will make a remarkable rise from the Championship to Test match rugby when he is named in the England squad to play Argentina.

England have still to play the All Blacks, France have tasty looking encounters lined up against South Africa in Toulouse this Friday and New Zealand, in Marseille, at the end of the month.

A huge cloud hovered over England’s perfect start to their South African tour last night when they were faced with the prospect of losing Ashes hero Stuart Broad to injury. The man who won the urn for England with his five-wicket spell in the final Test at The Oval damaged his right shoulder while fielding during Friday’s crushing victory over the Diamond Eagles in Bloemfontein.