{"id":306325,"date":"2025-07-31T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306325\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:15:16","slug":"englands-abi-burton-to-make-first-test-start-in-world-cup-warm-up-against-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306325\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Abi Burton to make first Test start in World Cup warm-up against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25-year-old Trailfinders player scored two tries as a replacement on her international debut against Wales during the Six Nations before again coming off the bench in the successful Grand Slam decider against France.<\/p>\n<p>She will line up at blindside flanker in a back row which contains Marlie Packer as captain and Maddie Feaunati at number eight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The warm-ups are here \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>John Mitchell has named his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedRoses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RedRoses<\/a> team to face Spain in Leicester.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/O2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@O2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WearTheRose?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WearTheRose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Roses (@RedRosesRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedRosesRugby\/status\/1950843936416928192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Props Kelsey Clifford and Sarah Bern will pack down either side of hooker Lark Atkin-Davies at Welford Road, ahead of locks Lilli Ives Campion and Rosie Galligan.<\/p>\n<p>Scrum-half Lucy Packer will partner fly-half Zoe Harrison, with Jade Shekells and vice-captain Megan Jones selected as the midfield duo.<\/p>\n<p>Full-back Emma Sing and wings Helena Rowland and Jess Breach form a new-look back three.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.79492466.jpg\" alt=\"England\u2019s Marlie Packer in action during the Six Nations\" data-title=\"England v Italy \u2013 Guinness Women\u2019s Six Nations \u2013 LNER Community Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Mike Egerton\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Marlie Packer will captain England against Spain (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>England, who play away to France next weekend, begin their home World Cup on Friday, August 22 against the United States in Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>England team to face Spain: E Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury), H Rowland (Loughborough), M Jones (Trailfinders), J Shekells (Gloucester-Hartpury), J Breach (Saracens); Z Harrison (Saracens), L Packer (Harlequins); K Clifford (Saracens), L Atkin-Davies (Bristol), S Bern (Bristol), R Galligan (Saracens), L Ives Campion (Loughborough), A Burton (Trailfinders), M Packer (Saracens, capt), M Feaunati (Exeter).<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: M Campbell (Saracens), H Botterman (Bristol), M Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury), Z Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury), S Kabeya (Loughborough), N Hunt (Gloucester-Hartpury), H Aitchison (Sale), A Dow (unattached).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old Trailfinders player scored two tries as a replacement on her international debut against Wales during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-306325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947328548758882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}