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 and brought in Fraser Dingwall to the centres in place of the axed Henry Slade in a major shake-up of the backs for Sunday’s must-win Six Nations match at home to Italy.

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.