Smith keeps England on course after Wales scare

By NICK CAIN at TWICKENHAM

England ............23pts
Tries: Dombrandt 43
Penalties: Smith 3, 6, 31, 42, 68, 72

Wales..................19pts
Tries: Adams 54, Tompkins, Hardy 80
Conversions: Biggar 61, 80
THERE is plenty of anecdotal evidence that the players Eddie Jones selects for England hold his coaching skills in the highest regard, and if ever he needed them to bail him out of a tight corner it was in this make-or-break Six Nations encounter against Wales.
They answered the call, granting the head coach a reprieve until England’s acid Tests of this season against Ireland a...

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