Dawson, Hill to miss clash

ENGLAND will go into their biggest Test match since the 1999 World Cup without injured Lions Matt Dawson and Richard Hill.

Sat, 18 Oct, 2003 - 01:00
Andrew Baldock

It will be music to South African ears that such key personnel are absent from a Subiaco Oval showdown which should shape England's World Cup destiny.

Kyran Bracken, having overcome back trouble, will replace Dawson and collect his 48th cap, while Leicester back-row forward Lewis Moody takes over from Hill. Gloucester scrum-half Andy Gomarsall and Wasps' Joe Worsley move on to the bench.

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