Two uncapped players to face All Blacks

Dan Carter during an All Blacks training run in London. Ross Land / Getty Images

England rugby coach Andy Robinson has thrown uncapped backs Anthony Allen and Shaun Perry in at the deep end by naming them in his starting 15 to face New Zealand at Twickenham on Monday morning (NZ time).

Allen, 20, starts at centre alongside Jamie Noon while 28-year-old Perry gets the halfback's slot in the team announced today.

Martin Corry reclaims the captaincy from Pat Sanderson after being rested for the summer tour of Australia.

He will start at blindside flanker, one of five Leicester players in the pack. Sanderson will play at No 8.

Josh Lewsey (knee), Olly Morgan (shoulder), James Forrester (knee) and Mathew Tait (thigh) were not considered because of injury while the replacements have yet to be named.

England go into the match against the Tri-Nations champions trying to avoid a sixth successive defeat and with Robinson under pressure.

His team face Argentina next week and then play South Africa twice and more failures for the world champions would lead to new director of rugby Rob Andrew to think hard about his coach with the World Cup less than a year away.

Robinson will look to Allen to add the pace and invention so sorely missing from England's attack in the last two years.

However, the youngster has only a handful of first-class starts to his name and Robinson will hope there is no repeat of the 2005 Six Nations when he threw in an inexperienced Tait for a wretched debut against Wales and then ignored him for the next 18 months.

Allen has had a great start to the season with Gloucester and scored two tries in yesterday's Heineken Cup loss to Agen.

With veteran Mike Catt out of favour and Tait, Mike Tindall and Olly Barkley injured, there is a great opportunity for him to stake a claim for the No 12 shirt.

"Anthony has really come through this season and it is a testament to Gloucester and the RFU Academy system that he is now ready to play against the number one team in the world at the moment," Robinson said.

Likewise at halfback, where Robinson is desperately short of experience since the retirement of Matt Dawson and where Harry Ellis, who has only just returned to action with Leicester, has failed to make the position his own.

Perry's calm head and solid pass have helped Bristol to a surprise top spot in the premiership and if he can link well with first five-eighth Charlie Hodgson he has a real chance to establish himself as the man in possession.

Monday's game marks the official opening of Twickenham's new South Stand, which takes the ground capacity up to 82,000.

As it is an extra game above the designated three in the international window, Robinson has promised aggrieved clubs that no player will be involved in all four games.

England: Iain Balshaw, Mark Cueto, Jamie Noon, Anthony Allen, Ben Cohen, Charlie Hodgson, Shaun Perry, Pat Sanderson, Lewis Moody, Martin Corry (captain), Ben Kay, Danny Grewcock, Julian White, George Chuter, Andrew Sheridan.

- REUTERS