AP – Former Australia forward Anthony Laffranchi was one of five St Helens players selected in the Exiles Super League squad for the upcoming rugby league clash with England.

Catalan Dragons and St Helens both had five players in Daniel Anderson’s 22-man squad, which will tackle England at St Helens on June 16.

Anderson named his squad via video link-up from Australia on Wednesday night (AEST), choosing nine of the players selected by Brian McClennan for last season’s inaugural fixture.

Wigan and Warrington provided four players each, Huddersfield offered two and Hull and London one each, meaning the party was picked from just half of Super League’s 14 sides.

Laffranchi, who played over 100 NRL games with Wests Tigers and added another 100 with the Gold Coast Titans, started his two-year Super League deal with Saints this season.

The fixture will be his first taste of representative rugby league since 2009, when he played both State of Origin with NSW and a Test against New Zealand.

Other notable former NRL players in Anderson’s squad include New Zealand international Lance Hohaia, former Melbourne Storm prop Antonio Kaufusi and ex-Canberra flyer Joel Monaghan, who left the Raiders in 2010 after a photograph of him simulating a sex act with a dog surfaced on Twitter.

Kiwis Jeff Lima and Thomas Leuluai, former Newcastle Knight George Carmont and Australian Brett Finch were the four Wigan players picked in the Exiles squad.

From the title-chasing Dragons, Fiji centre Darryl Millard, prop Lopini Paea, last year’s pick Louis Anderson, form No.7 Scott Dureau and London Irish-bound Setaimata Sa were included in Anderson’s party.

Saints – who Anderson coached with distinction between 2005 and 2008 – offered Laffranchi, Hohaia, winger Francis Meli, centre Sia Soliola and Tony Puletua.

The squad as a whole has 193 caps of international experience and features just one change from the pre-announced 30-man group, with Huddersfield’s David Faiumu drafted in.