England have won once in their last nine Tests a sequence that started with Scotland's 18-12 victory over them at Murrayfield last season.

And centre Mike Tindall, who is among eight 2003 World Cup-winning squad members on starting duty for the Twickenham encounter, has no doubt England's poor autumn Test series will provide every incentive to turn over a new leaf.

Tindall lines up in a radically reshaped England team which contains two uncapped players following his Gloucester colleague Olly Morgan's late promotion as full-back after Iain Balshaw was ruled out by groin trouble.

Morgan and Andy Farrell are the newcomers on show, but experience prevails in many other areas with Tindall, new captain Phil Vickery and immediate past skipper Martin Corry all winning their 50th caps, while fly-half superstar Jonny Wilkinson returns for his 53rd England appearance, more than 1,100 days after the 52nd.

Scotland, in contrast, have lost their best player - captain Jason White - to a tournament-ending injury, and they last won at Twickenham 24 years ago, when prop Jim Aitken's team saw off England 22-12.

It (the autumn) is a big motivation, I know it is for me, and I wasn't involved, said Tindall, reflecting on November defeats against Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand.

We've had a lot of bad results recently, and we've got to start turning those results our way.

When you are not winning games, the pressure builds and the weight on your shoulders gets heavier and heavier, and then it is easier to take the simpler options in games, but that also makes it easier for the opposition defence because they know what is going on.

What we need to do is get back to the unexpected, not just playing how people expect us to play, but having the ability to vary our game - play it wide, play it tight and keep people guessing - because then it creates holes in the defence.

England also have a new man at the helm, 60-year-old head coach Brian Ashton, who was brought in to succeed Andy Robinson five days before Christmas and has wasted little time freshening things up.