Dallaglio returns for England

ENGLAND coach Brian Ashton has turned to Lawrence Dallaglio for the first time and offered the veteran Wasps captain a route to the World Cup.

Dallaglio, 34, had been out of the England picture since the 2006 RBS 6 Nations but his form in leading Wasps to victory in the Heineken Cup earned him a place in Ashton’s 47-man World Cup training squad.

Dallaglio is joined in the extended party by 10 Wasps team-mates — the most of any Guinness Premiership club — and 14 other members of England’s victorious 2003 World Cup squad.