England's Tom Curry attends training in Sapporo, Japan, September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/Files
OITA, Japan (Reuters) - Australia's David Pocock and Michael Hooper, pioneers of the "twin opensides" approach to back-row play, will come face to face with England's copycat version in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final in the shape of Tom Curry and Sam Underhill.
While not unique, it is still uncommon at Test level to operate with two specialist sevens and Eddie Jones is a recent convert after being won over by the dynamism of the young English duo he dubbed "The Kamikaze Kids" after pairing them for the first time during the World Cup warm-up games in August.
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