Harlequins wing Dan Luger is England's latest new cap for their World Cup qualifier against Holland in Huddersfield on Saturday. Luger, the son of a Croatian father and Czech mother but born in Chiswick, said: "I am a west Londoner and English."
He joins the team for the expected walkover match against the Dutch, for which England are stripped of appointed captain Lawrence Dallaglio, who will also miss the second World Cup game against the land of his father when England take on Italy on Sunday week.
Martin Johnson, who deputises for Dallaglio as leader, has four other Leicester players in his pack, and England's forwards have not been so dominated by one club since Harlequins supplied five to the World Cup final front eight in 1991.
Luger was booked to go on England's tour of Argentina last year but was out for 10 months with a cruciate ligament injury.
"I came back to Harlequins just in time to be on the spot for Will Carling's retirement from rugby that occurred suddenly at the start of this year. When I came to the club, Will and players like Jerry Guscott and Rory Underwood had been my idols.
"Will always made me feel comfortable. He was brilliant and when I broke my arm and unwisely stayed on he said that he would do all my tackling for me - and he did."
Luger's mother, Tina, and father, Darko, were both athletes. They knew nothing about rugby before their son took an interest but now they watch him at every opportunity.
Luger admits he has entered the England team by the back door. "If you are in the squad you always hope, but I realise that people like David Rees and Tony Underwood might be ahead of me."
Rees and Underwood are both injured, however, and England's wings will comprise uncapped Luger and Austin Healey, who plays scrum-half for Leicester, but is a proven Test wing.
England coach Clive Woodward, who decided to finalise Test selection 48 hours before his flexible deadline, said: "Luger, Matt Perry and Rees were the outstanding players when I was under-21 coach five seasons ago.
"I have named Dan ahead of Tom Beim and Spencer Brown, while Austin is an outstanding footballer. You have to make changes if injuries occur, and these have been made because of the current circumstances."
While Luger wins his place through the misfortunes of other wings, the newest Leicester forward, Martin Corry, is in on merit. He wins his third cap after a couple of Tests with England's second-string team in Argentina last year - even though last season's number eights Richard Hill and Tony Diprose would have been available to take Dallaglio's place.
Corry was added to the squad in the last couple of weeks, and Woodward said: "He should have been in the squad beforehand. He has been playing so well in the last four or five weeks. He and Neil Back, who has been in outstanding form, give us exactly the balance we want in the back row."
Matt Dawson, England's captain on their summer tour of the Southern Hemisphere, is retained because the front-runner at scrum-half, Kyran Bracken, hurt his back in training this week. Dawson links with his Northampton club half-back partner Paul Grayson, who wins what Woodward described as "a hard selection decision between him and Mike Catt".
England (v Holland): M Perry (Bath); A Healey (Leicester), W Greenwood (Leicester), J Guscott (Bath), D Luger (Harlequins); P Grayson (Northampton), M Dawson (Northampton); J Leonard (Harlequins), R Cockerill (Leicester), D Garforth (Leicester), G Archer (Newcastle), M Johnson (Leicester), B Clarke (Richmond), M Corry (Leicester), N Back (Leicester). Replacements: N Beal (Northampton), P de Glanville (Bath), M Catt (Bath), G Rowntree (Leicester), P Greening (Sale), T Rodber (Northampton), R Hill (Saracens).
