Mason Billington is in line to make his England debut in Saturday’s wheelchair rugby league worldwide towards France after taking on the game solely eight months in the past.
The 29-year-old from Essex, who performs with the London Roosters, broke his again in 2016 and had been enjoying wheelchair basketball earlier than a brand new wheelchair rugby league crew was established in Brentwood in February.
He’s the one uncapped member of a 10-player squad named by coach Tom Coyd for Saturday’s game at Robin Park Arena in Wigan (14:30 BST).
Billington, Josh Butler and Jack Heggie are included alongside seven gamers who received the World Cup in 2022.
Butler, who received the Wheels of Metal because the excellent participant of the Wheelchair Tremendous League season, is one in all three members of the Leeds Rhinos crew who went via the marketing campaign unbeaten and won the Grand Final final weekend, alongside Nathan Collins and Tom Halliwell, whereas Heggie joins Wigan team-mate Adam Rigby.
It is going to be the third time England have confronted France since their well-known win within the closing in Manchester.
France claimed victory in Leeds final November, with England gaining revenge when the edges met in Marseille three weeks later.