England name team to play France at Chantilly

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British and English Boys Champion Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire), is one of two new caps named in the England team to face France at Chantilly on Sunday 16th and Monday 17th May.
The other newcomer is Billy Hemstock (Teignmouth, Devon), while the rest of the team are seasoned internationals, most being members of the victorious line-up from last year’s Home Internationals at Hillside and of the team that retained the European Nations Cup in Spain last month.
They are: Jamie Abbott (Fynn Valley, Suffolk), Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall, Lancashire), Matt Haines (Rochester & Cobham, Kent), Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale, Surrey), Matt Nixon (Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire), Chris Paisley (Stocksfield, Northumberland), and Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park, BB&O). Non-travelling reserves: Jack Senior (Heysham, Lancashire) and Tom Shadbolt (Mid Herts, Hertfordshire).
England captain Colin Edwards is expecting a close contest.
“I expect France to field a very strong side and we will have our work cut out to win over there,” he said. “The French supplied the top four finishers in the recent Portuguese Amateur and they have had other successes. But we won the European Nations Cup impressively and we have also had other fine individual early season performances. So I think it will be a tight match.”