WORCESTER Warriors' Greg King has been handed his first England start of the IRB Under 19 Championship against New Zealand at Ravenhill in Belfast tomorrow night (5.30pm).

The centre, from Chipping Norton, replaces Exeter's Tom Bedford at outside-centre in a game England will almost certainly have to win to progress to the semi-final stages.

Elsewhere, Saracens wing Noah Cato and London Wasps scrum-half Joe Simpson return to the side and there are three changes in the pack with Nathan Catt (Bath) starting at loose-head, Scott Hobson (Cornish Pirates) at lock and Andy Saull (Saracens) in the back-row.

"Greg's been part of the squad since we first got together at Worcester in November last year," said head coach Nigel Redman. "He runs good lines, is aggressive in defence and he'll be fresh and raring to go at Ravenhill."

King joins fellow Sixways players, wing Miles Benjamin and flanker Matt Cox, in the England line-up.

After banking wins over Samoa (20-12) and Argentina (17-15), the complicated mathematics of the Division A' table mean that Redman's side could still qualify for the semi-finals.

Picking up just a bonus point against the Baby Blacks' might be enough.

But for England to do so would require an unlikely permutation of results from three different games with Austra-lia overwhelming France and low-scoring wins for the European sides in the South Africa v Ireland and Argentina v Wales contests.