Balshaw’s World Cup place at stake in Marseilles

IAIN BALSHAW will make his long-awaited Test match return on Saturday – and is determined to make up for lost time.

Balshaw was England's try-scoring star of the 2001 Six Nations Championship, when his dazzling attacking skills won widespread acclaim.

But three serious injuries in two years put his career on the backburner, and even raised questions whether he would ever recapture that form.