Scotland team to face England in Six Nations

Gregor Townsend before Scotland v France match

Gregor Townsend has kept faith with the players that beat France as the Scotland head coach named an unchanged team for Saturday's Calcutta Cup clash with England.

Townsend has seen his pack options bolstered with Edinburgh prop WP Nel and Glasgow lock Tim Swinson named among the replacements following injury.

Glasgow centre Nick Grigg has been rewarded for his man-of-the-match display against Cheetahs last Friday with a place on the bench for the Six Nations fixture.

Five of Scotland's backline are British and Irish Lions - Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Sean Maitland, Finn Russell and Greig Laidlaw.

Townsend said: "The players put a huge amount of effort into our win over France. They found a way to win and kept attacking the opposition up until the final whistle.

"England are the number two side in the world and have shown a very good level of consistency in the past couple of seasons.

"Taking on England is going to be a huge challenge and we are well aware that only our very best will be good enough in this fixture."

Scotland team to play England

FORWARDS: 1 Gordon Reid (London Irish), 2 Stuart McInally (Edinburgh Rugby), 3 Simon Berghan (Edinburgh Rugby), 4 Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby), 5 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), 6 John Barclay (CAPTAIN , Scarlets), 7 Hamish Watson (Edinburgh Rugby), 8 Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors)

BACKS: 9 Greig Laidlaw (ASM Clermont Auvergne), 10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors), 11 Sean Maitland (Saracens), 12 Pete Horne (Glasgow Warriors), 13 Huw Jones (Glasgow Warriors), 14 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), 15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors)

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Scott Lawson (Newcastle Falcons), 17 Jamie Bhatti (Glasgow Warriors), 18 Willem Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) , 19 Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors), 20 David Denton (Worcester Warriors), 21 Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors), 22 Nick Grigg (Glasgow Warriors), 23 Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh Rugby)*

* Denotes uncapped player

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