England have dropped Marcus Smith and Henry Slade in a dramatic shake-up of the backline for Sunday's Guinness Six Nations clash with Italy at Allianz Stadium. Smith is demoted to the bench to make way for the recall of Elliot Daly at full-back,

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -England have dropped Marcus Smith for Sunday's Six Nations clash against Italy at Twickenham with Elliot Daly replacing him as coach Steve Borthwick makes three changes to the line-up that began the narrow victory over Scotland.

England have dropped Marcus Smith to the bench for Sunday’s game against Italy with Elliot Daly taking his place at full-back, as first revealed by Telegraph Sport on Tuesday. Daly has come off the bench in England’s last two Six Nations matches and scored the winning try in their 16-15 victory over France.