England claim scrappy win

England trailed 12-4 to 100/1 outsiders France at half-time at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium but Myler turned the tide with two quickfire tries.

Kevin Sinfield, Ryan Hall and Tom Briscoe also got on the scoresheet, adding to an earlier Lee Smith effort, but England will want to improve for next week's clash with Australia.

There was little hint of the drama to come when England stand-off Danny McGuire sent his Leeds team-mate Smith over for the game's first try on 12 minutes. But the French drew level thanks to winger Vincent Duport's try midway through the first half, courtesy of some trickery from debutant full-back Clint Greenshields.

Thomas Bosc's conversion went in off an upright to give the visitors a shock lead and it got worse for England when second rower Julien Touxagas intercepted Scott Moore's wayward pass to set up the position for hooker Kane Bentley to scoot over from dummy half for a second try.

Bosc's second goal made it 12-4 and England would have been even further behind at half-time had the stand-off been able to land a 50-metre penalty.

Myler sparked the fightback, jinking his way over for England's second try three minutes into the second half.

He grabbed his second from Sinfield's short pass on 49 minutes to edge his side back in front and the Leeds skipper accepted Jamie Peacock's offload to go over for England's third three minutes later to turn the game on its head.

And all French resistance crumbled when left winger Hall snapped up Bosc's pass near his own line and raced unopposed for his 34th try of the season.

Right winger Briscoe, who was only called into the squad this week, also got in on the scoring act three minutes from the end when his collected substitute Kyle Eastmond's grubber kick for his third try in two appearances.