Mikey Lewis has been named in England’s 19-man matchday squad for their opening Ashes Test against Australia on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Hull KR scrum-half is likely to start alongside captain George Williams in the half-back roles, with Wigan’s Harry Smith left out of the party.<\/p>\n
Lewis was man of the match as Hull KR beat Wigan in the Grand Final earlier this month to complete a domestic treble, after also winning the Challenge Cup and League Leaders’ Shield.<\/p>\n
Club-mate Jez Litten has also made the matchday squad – putting him in line to make his first England appearance since a mid-season victory over France in 2023.<\/p>\n
But their Hull KR team-mate Joe Burgess, who scored two tries in the Grand Final and returned to the England set-up after a 10-year absence when he was called up for the Ashes, has missed out.<\/p>\n
England head coach Shaun Wane has opted to name a matchday squad rather than confirm a starting line-up. Australia named their starting 13 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
After Saturday’s Test at Wembley, England face Australia at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium on 1 November and at AMT Headingley on 8 November. All three matches are 14:30 kick-offs and will be live on BBC One.<\/p>\n
England matchday squad: John Bateman, AJ Brimson, Daryl Clark, Herbie Farnworth, Ethan Havard, Tom Johnstone, Morgan Knowles, Matty Lees, Mikey Lewis, Jez Litten, Mike McMeeken, Mikolaj Oledzki, Kai Pearce-Paul, Owen Trout, Alex Walmsley, Jake Wardle, Jack Welsby, George Williams, Dom Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikey Lewis has been named in England’s 19-man matchday squad for their opening Ashes Test against Australia on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}