Sam Burgess will be named in England's World Cup training squad

Bath’s rugby league convert Sam Burgess will be named in England’s Rugby World Cup training squad this week, and remarkably, with Manu Tuilagi sensationally out of the tournament having pleaded guilty to charges of assault and criminal damage, he could now be in line to be included in the final 31-man squad as a centre.

Head coach Stuart Lancaster will announce his squad on Wednesday and it is thought that it could comprise some 50, maybe more, names, rather than 45 as previously thought, with bodies required to cover injuries and the late bolters likely to include Saracens’ 20-year-old lo…