England coach John Mitchell has named an unchanged team from their final warm-up game for the Women's Rugby World Cup opener against the United States in Sunderland on Friday.

The starting 15 overwhelmed France 40-6 in the second of England's two warm-up fixtures earlier this month.

Zoe Aldcroft continues to captain the team from blindside flanker, with No 8 Alex Matthews and openside Sadia Kabeya alongside her in the back row and Abbie Ward and Morwenna Talling the starting locks.

The pack is completed by a powerful front row of Hannah Botterman, Amy Cokayne and Maud Muir.

Behind the scrum, half-backs Natasha Hunt and Zoe Harrison will look to dictate play, with Meg Jones and Tatyana Heard in the centres.

Scrum-half Hunt will be making her first World Cup appearance since 2017 after

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