who defeated France dramatically<\/a> at Manchester Central in November 2022 to win the World Cup.<\/p>\nSo too was Lewis King, who will captain England down under, plus King’s London Roosters club-mate Joe Coyd and Leeds Rhinos’ Nathan Collins.<\/p>\n
Collins will be joined in the England squad by Leeds team-mate Tristan Norfolk, Roosters’ Mason Billington and the Sheffield Eagles pair of Luis Domingos and Chris Haynes.<\/p>\n
England face Wales on Friday, 30 October (04:30 GMT) in their opening match at the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup – which will be staged alongside the men’s and women’s tournaments.<\/p>\n
They then face the USA on Tuesday, 3 November (07:30 GMT) and Ireland on Friday, 6 November (06:00 GMT), aiming to secure a spot in the following Tuesday’s semi-finals.<\/p>\n
The wheelchair tournament will be staged at the Wollongong Entertainment Centre, with the final on Friday, 13 November (08:30 GMT).<\/p>\n
England head coach Tom Coyd – who led the side to their World Cup success in Manchester four years ago – said: “Every player understands what it means to wear the England shirt and the responsibility that comes with it.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday’s brilliant Wheelchair Super League Grand Final was a testament to the special community that we are privileged to represent on the world stage.”<\/p>\n
England’s wheelchair squad will fly out to Australia on 22 October.<\/p>\n
England squad: Mason Billington (London Roosters), Jack Brown (Halifax Panthers), Nathan Collins (Leeds Rhinos), Joe Coyd (London Roosters), Luis Domingos (Sheffield Eagles), Rob Hawkins (Halifax Panthers), Chris Haynes (Sheffield Eagles), Lewis King (London Roosters), Tristan Norfolk (Leeds Rhinos), Finlay O’Neill (Halifax Panthers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Hawkins is among five Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup winners who will attempt to help England defend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-900297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}