Opportunity knocks for Ross Byrne and Jack Carty

Ross Byrne will get the chance to nail down his World Cup place at Twickenham tomorrow as Joe Schmidt juggles his fly-half options for next month’s final cut.

With Joey Carbery’s ankle injury likely to rule the Munster star out of the rest of Ireland’s World Cup preparations over the next three weeks and first-choice number 10 Johnny Sexton not quite ready for action following an early-summer thumb injury, Ireland have turned to their two least inexperienced playmakers, Byrne and Jack Carty, to see them through the high-intensity workout England will provide in London tomorrow.