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England call up uncapped teenager
ESPN Staff
November 4, 2013
Bath's Anthony Watson tries to get past the Chiefs tackler, J.P Morgan Sevens Series, Kingsholm, Gloucester, August 1, 2013
Anthony Watson - brought into the squad for experience © Getty Images
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Uncapped Bath fullback Anthony Watson has been called into the England training squad ahead of Saturday's Test against Argentina at Twickenham.

Watson, 19, was a member of the England Under-20 team which won the Junior World Cup in the summer.

"We're bringing Anthony into camp to take a look at him," said coach Stuart Lancaster. "He's playing well for Bath so this is a good opportunity to give him a taste of this environment."

"We want to take a look at him in the same way that we have done in the past with others outside the senior or Saxons squads, such as [current England second row] Joe Launchbury."

Watson, who moved to Bath from London Irish over the summer, was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

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