Emma Raducanu was in England camp on Tuesday as Steve Borthwick's side rallied ahead of their All Blacks clash on Saturday. Former US Open champion Raducanu watched training alongside Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler, who was also at the base on Monday.

Raducanu chatted with skipper Maro Itoje and Marcus Smith before doing a line out drill with prop Fin Baxter. Borthwick said: "Fabian shared some of his experiences, and the importance of the team. Emma Raducanu has been to training today - it's just great having elite sports people come and visit us.

"Emma was talking to the players and sharing her experiences about preparing for the elite level of competition, which is terrific. People like her are always very welcome because we enjoy learning from others' experience."

Baxter added: She was very good, and caught the ball. And then afterwards I was like, 'hi Emma, I'm Fin by the way'. It was a weird way to meet her for the first time. But it was cool to have her in.

"The amount of pressure that she has to go under because of how successful she is, is definitely something we can all learn from."

Raducanu won the US Open in 2021 but has not got past the fourth round in a major since.

Meanwhile, head coach Steve Borthwick recalled George Ford to the England line-up - then predicted the fly-half could have his job one day.

Ford returns at 10 for Saturday's clash with the All Blacks, to win his 104th cap, with Borthwick backing his big game know-how over Fin Smith's.

The Sale man missed a penalty and botched a drop goal which handed New Zealand a 24-22 win at Twickenham last year but has been England's form 10 this season.

Ford, now 32, steered England to a 25-7 win over Australia a fortnight ago, when he switched England's tactics in the second half, before Smith got the nod for the 38-18 win over Fiji last weekend.

But with the pivotal game of the autumn coming, Ford has been given the keys to No.10 and Borthwick has backed his rugby brain to see England through - and get him a seat in the coaches' box when he retires.

Borthwick said: "I've gone on record as saying that many years from now he's going to be a brilliant coach.

"He's that kind of character, and has such a great understanding of the game, I wouldn't be in any way surprised if he'd be England coach at some point. I think he will be, if that's where he chooses to go. Having a player and a person of that kind, with his understanding, calmness, leadership - he's phenomenal."

England's succession of narrow defeats to the Kiwis was a factor in Borthwick bringing back Ford, who made his Test debut way back in 2014 and has seen the lot, good and bad, in rugby.

Borthwick added: "All those experiences, those tight games, we can now recall them and call upon them. We've shared those experiences.

"George is somebody who, with over 100 caps now, he has plenty of those experiences. He's seen so many things happen and so many things occur before, he can call on them and share his experiences with the team.

"I'm really hopeful it is not a game where we're dependent on a ball hitting the post or not for the result, I don't want it to be that tight, but it could well be."

Borthwick has made seven changes in all, two forced by injury with Tommy Freeman (hamstring) and Ollie Chessum (foot) ruled out.

Fit-again Tom Roebuck is in for Freeman with Alex Coles named to start at lock alongside skipper Maro Itoje who had a rare day on the bench against Fiji.

Freddie Steward returns at full-back, with Marcus Smith a replacement, big game player Sam Underhill is back at openside flanker and Ben Earl switches to No.8.

Underhill is one six players, in Saturday's 23, who were involved in England's last win over the All Blacks, in the World Cup semi-final in Yokohama in 2019.

Another, Tom Curry, is on the bench with Borthwick aiming to unleash his Bomb Squad of six Lions plus the powerful Chandler Cunningham-South in the second half.

As we found out 12 months ago against New Zealand, and as we keep finding out in more of these Test matches, the scores are very, very tight in that final quarter," said Borthwick.

"Each game we've played against New Zealand has gone to late in the game. So, we need the right players on to finish and having that level of experience on the bench is an important asset for us."