Rugby:England manager Martin Johnson is confident Lewis Moody's knee injury will not prove serious enough to rule him out of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Moody limped out of Saturday's 23-19 win against Wales with a recurrence of the knee ligament problem that kept him sidelined for England's Six Nations Championship winning campaign.

The England captain has had his right knee scanned and the results were being studied by the team’s medics, with a conclusion expected in the next 24 hours. Johnson admitted: “The bad news would be that he has got an eight week injury that would put him out of the World Cup. I don’t think it is going to put him out of the tournament, but we’ll see.

“It is not great that he has got an injury, but I don’t think it is on the very bad side of knee injuries.”