Richmond's Victoria Cornborough will start at loosehead prop as England Women U20s take on Canada tomorrow on the opening day of the Nations Cup action at Brunel University.

England will be looking to make a powerful start to their campaign against their North American rivals as the reigning Nations Cup champions.

Bath's Marlie Packer will lead the England young guns with her team-mate Nicola Hoole as vice-captain.

England head coach, Teddington RFC boss Giselle Mather, said: "Although this is a re-run of last year's final, Canada are very much an unknown quantity to us because they have got a new squad.

"Traditionally, Canada have a very good U20s programme so we are expecting this first fixture to be incredibly tough and physical.

"I am extremely pleased with the progress we have made over the last four days.

"We are really looking forward to the start of the tournament and with the strong forwards and the pace we have got in our backline we are hoping to play some exciting, fast rugby.

"We are going into this tournament as reigning champions but, for this side, this is a clean sheet. We have many new players, and they are eager to create their own little bit of history."

England U20s:

15 Natasha Hunt Bath RFC 14 Garnet MacKinder Exeter Saracens RFC 13 Rose Fong Darlington Mowden Park Sharks RFC 12 Sarah McKenna Old Albanian Saints RFC 11 Samantha Bree Worcester RFC 10 Claire Garner Leeds Leos RFC 9 Jessie-Joy Flowers West Park RFC 1 Victoria Cornborough Richmond RFC 2 Davinia Monterio Bath RFC 3 Charlotte Male Plymouth Albion RFC 4 Harriet Mills Manchester RFC 5 Juliet Short Darlington Mowden Park Sharks RFC 6 Marlie Packer Bath RFC Captain 7 Hannah Field Reading RFC 8 Nicola Hoole Bath RFC vice-captain

Replacements:

16 Sasha Acheson Sudbury RFC 17 Elizabeth Peak Oakmedians RFC 18 Charlotte Wild Leeds Met Uni 19 Amy Miller Reading RFC 20 Hannah Walker-Smart Paviors RFC 21 Alex Cook Bath RFC 22 Lizell Heather Kettering RFC

Head coach Giselle Mather

Assistant coach Martin Hynes