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England lock Courtney Lawes is looking forward to pulling on an England jersey once again when Eddie Jones side take on South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday, live on Sky Sports. Lawes was an injury doubt for Englands opening autumn international after withdrawing from Northampton Saints matches against Montpellier and Gloucester last month due to bruising on the knee joint. England vs South Africa November 12, 2016, 2:00pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass However, after proving his fitness Lawes is ready to resume his second-row partnership alongside Joe Launchbury. Ive not been very lucky with my injuries, especially last season, he told Sky Sports News HQ. I had three six-week injuries so I just wanted to stay fit for a significant amount of time; enough time to get my form back. Lawes has been sidelined by a series of injuries That was my main goal and Im certainly on my way. Im not there yet, but Im on my way to getting back to the sort of form that Im used to. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. Lawes also revealed that head coach Jones has been working with him to improve his ball carrying ahead of the Old Mutual Wealth series.I dropped off with my carrying. When I was younger I used to carry way more than I had the previous season, so Eddie was hot on me for my carrying and getting around the park and making a big impact, he said. Courtney Lawes has been urged to take his opportunity if selected to play against South Africa after recovering from a knee injury. Its a confidence thing. You get used to carrying and if you stop carrying, you get used to not carrying, so its about retraining your brain, getting used to patterns around the park and how you can get your hands on the ball. Wood stays as England cut nine Tom Wood is in line to make his England return after being retained in a 25-man squad Lawes Northampton team-mate Tom Wood is back in the England fold for the first time under Jones, having been told by the Australian in January that he was distinctly average. Tom Wood is back in the England fold for the first time in a year Its really good to see him back in the squad, added Lawes. Hes worked unbelievably hard in all facets of his game and Im really proud of him.Is Eddie testing him when he says things like that? Woody is not a distinctly average player, hes a very good player, and I think Eddie just wanted to see his character. Woody has shown him that and that is why hes back here now. Also See: Wood retains England place Farrell form no shock to Ford Boks out to emulate Ireland England red hot favourites Cheap Air Max 1 Free Shipping . Dukurs winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russias Alexander Tretiakov. 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LOS ANGELES -- A woman accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends of gang rape testified Thursday in the civil trial of her $21.5 million lawsuit against the New York Knicks player, who appeared in court for the first time.When Rose entered the courtroom, the woman paused and cried while being questioned by her attorney about what happened on a night in August 2013.The trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday in Los Angeles.Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek said on Thursday that its unclear whether Rose will miss preseason games while he attends the trial. Rose is expected to be in Los Angeles on Friday, and the Knicks play preseason games in New York on Saturday and Monday.The woman on Thursday testified that she went to Roses rented Beverly Hills mansion for drinks and got very drunk. She said she felt as if ?she had been drugged and does not remember much about the mansion or the evening.She said she drank before going to the mansion, then had three or more shots of tequila after she got there.I just felt I was less in control, more goofy, she said, adding that she had previously had tequila with Rose and felt as if it gave her strength. This was the opposite.The woman testified that when she got home to her apartment, she vomited and passed out on her bed. Her lawsuit says the three men came to her apartment and raped her.During a break in testimony, a lawyer for the two friends objected to the womans amount of crying and asked the judge to order her not to cry.Im not going to order the witness not to cry any more than Im going to order her not to breathe, said U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald, adding he was unaware of courts that have ordered witnesses not to cry.No criminal charges have been filed against Rose or the other men, Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton, but Los Angeles police continue to investigate.Rose, 28, didnt appear in court during jury selection earlier in the week or when attorneys made opening statements Wednesday to the panel of six women and two men.During opening statements, the woman wept quietly as her lawyer provided jurors with lurid descriptions. Roses defense fired back by portraying the encounter as something from a porn film, not a horror moviee.ddddddddddddThe plaintiff will tell you all three men were in the bedroom at the same time, said her attorney, Waukeen McCoy. Each of them took turns raping her; they dont even know who went first.In sharp contrast to McCoys statement, defense lawyers doubled down on their assertions that the woman willingly had sex with the trio at Roses mansion in Beverly Hills.They used a string of text messages as a timeline to question the womans story and whether she even drank enough to black out hours later. And they questioned how she had managed to send lucid text messages during that period -- several of which invited Rose to her apartment.Whether you claim you were blacking out or not, you were using periods and sentences, attorney Mark Baute said. I dont usually text like that, she replied.They said the woman gave lap dances earlier, performed oral sex on Rose and had sex with his friends before inviting them back to her apartment.There was no gang rape, attorney Mike Monico said. There was no rape at all.McCoy said the story about her having sex earlier in the night was falsely concocted to try to show she was insatiable and wanted to have sex with the men later that night.Jurors will have to rely primarily on evaluating her word against that of Rose, Allen and Hampton. There is no physical evidence because the woman was not examined by a doctor afterward and did not report the alleged rape to police for two years -- after filing the suit.McCoy said the woman was initially too embarrassed to report the incident.After having sex, Rose took his condom, put it back in the wrapper and took it with him like he was never there, McCoy said.NBA players are instructed to flush their condoms down the toilet or take them so women cant use the sperm to impregnate themselves, Roses lawyer said.Rose was traded to the Knicks this season after spending his previous seven years in his native Chicago with the Bulls. Hes in the final year of a five-year deal that will pay him $21.3 million.ESPN Staff Writer Ian Begley and The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '