Henry Pollock hopes to get another chance on the wing for England after his two-try display off the bench helped secure a record-breaking 45-22 Nations Championship victory over Australia.

The Northampton Saints flanker was a standout performer as England put a tough week behind them by scoring seven tries and their most amount of points against Australia.

Much of the build-up was overshadowed by a report in The Times that England's senior players had lost faith in coach Steve Borthwick, but they responded with a stellar display against the Wallabies.

Jamie George, Ollie Chessum and Joe Heyes went over – the latter while Angus Bell was in the sin bin – before Max Jorgensen's try brought Australia back within reach at the interval.

Jaco van Poortvliet restored England's 16-point cushion early in the second half before Pollock touched down twice in two minutes before the hour mark.

Filipo Daugunu and Jeremy Williams crossed for the Wallabies before Ben Spencer finished off the scoring, but all eyes were on Pollock after the final whistle.

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"I trained for it [the wing] a little bit, and when they told me at half-time, the boys got around me really well, and that gave me the confidence to go out there and be myself," Pollock told ITV Sport.

"And then, defensively, just try and make as good a read as I can. You have to keep talking to your backfield and be in the backfield; it's something that I've never really done.

"I want to shout out George Furbank and Henry Slade for making my job easy. They were just telling me what to do, and I was doing it.

"I loved it. I loved the challenges. I was nervous at half-time, it's a new position for me and I've never done this for England before.  It was really fun, so hopefully I will again."

There will be concerns about injuries to Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, who was replaced by Pollock at half-time, and Seb Atkinson ahead of Saturday's clash with Japan.

Australia captain Harry Wilson, meanwhile, hopes the Wallabies will not take too long to get going when they take on Scotland next weekend.

"We started to get our game going. England put us under the pump, we didn't get too much of the ball in the first half," he said. 

"They fronted up physically. Our defence wasn't physical enough in slowing the ball down. I feel like we were playing from behind there, so, credit to England.

"A lot of our issues might be the mindset. We've got seven days to take some feedback from this game and make sure we're a lot better.

"I know Scotland are a really good team, and we have to be ready for it, and we have to be ready for these harsh lessons.

"We know when we hold the ball for long phases and play our style of footy, we can cut teams up. But we can't be waiting for the last 15 minutes to do it."