Simon Raiwalui ‘in no doubt’ grieving Sam Matavesi will be ready to face England

Matavesi left the Islanders’ camp in Marseille to attend the funeral in Cornwall, but returned on Thursday.

Sam Matavesi is expected to feature for Fiji against England (PA)

Sam Matavesi has been named on the bench for Fiji’s World Cup quarter-final against England, despite his father Sireli dying earlier in the week.

Matavesi left the Islanders’ camp in Marseille to attend the funeral in Cornwall, where Sireli had settled after a tour by the Fiji Barbarians in the 1980s, but returned on Thursday.