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,

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.

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.