Former Otley winger Steve Parsons (Harrogate) and ex-Wharfedale flanker Sam Stitcher (Esher) have been named in the England Counties XV squad to face the AIB Ireland Club side at Stourbridge on Friday, February 26 (7.30pm).

Parsons is one of only five survivors from the squad that toured Korea and Japan last year.

After this England have a match against France Amateurs in March and a three-match tour of Canada in June.