TIM Payne will win his sixth cap on Sunday after being called up to replace Andrew Sheridan in the front row for England's Six Nations match in Italy.
He is one of six Wasps in the match-day squad, with Phil Vickery (captain), Paul Sackey, James Haskell and Simon Shaw retaining their starting places.
Danny Cipriani was content himself with a place on the bench again, despite calls from some quarters to play him from the start after Jonny Wilkinson's erratic showing in last weekend's defeat to Wales.
Full squad:England: 15 I Balshaw (Gloucester), 14 P Sackey (Wasps), 13 J Noon (Newcastle), 12 T Flood (Newcastle), 11 L Vainikolo (Gloucester), 10 J Wilkinson (Newcastle), 9 A Gomarsall (Harlequins); 1 T Payne (Wasps), 2 M Regan (Bristol), 3 P Vickery (Wasps, capt), 4 S Shaw (Wasps), 5 S Borthwick (Bath), 6 J Haskell (Wasps), 7 M Lipman (Bath), 8 N Easter (Harlequins) Replacements: 16 L Mears (Bath), 17 M Stevens (Bath), 18 B Kay (Leicester), 19 L Narraway (Gloucester), 20 R Wigglesworth (Sale Sharks), 21 D Cipriani (Wasps), 22 M Tait (Newcastle)
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