She had a disappointing debut in 2008, but England captain Marlie Packer will reach 100 caps when her side play Italy in the Women's Six Nations on Sunday.
Watch live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and online; text commentary, highlights and report on BBC Sport website and app.Sarah Hunter, Rocky Clark, Katy Daley-McLean, Tamara Taylor, Emily Scarratt and Amy Garnett are the six Englishwomen to have reached that coveted milestone.
"I had to ask my manager for 16 or 17 tickets the other day and the maximum allocation you can have on the app was six." While out walking her dogs a few years ago, Packer was on the phone to Alex Austerberry, her coach at Saracens, questioning whether she was still good enough to start for the Red Roses.
"Alex and I have straight and honest conversations and he said it was doable - 'you just need to get your head down and work on the things we are telling you to work on'."Doing exactly that, more caps and trophies followed before she took over the England captaincy from Hunter during the 2023 Six Nations.The England captain was then named World Rugby Women's Player of the Year for 2023.
WXV signalled the start of a new era under head coach John Mitchell, who took over from Simon Middleton and retained Packer as his skipper for this year's Six Nations.
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