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England head coach Eddie Jones is hoping to have the same impact his fellow Australian Trevor Bayliss has had in charge of England's cricket team

England will be fighting to be the best team in the world by 2020, head coach Eddie Jones has told Sky Sports News HQ.

Jones has been installed on the back of a miserable World Cup campaign on home soil and called up seven uncapped players in his squad for the Six Nations Championships.

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England's first game under Jones will be in Scotland on February 6 and the Australian has lofty ambitions for his players.

Asked what he wanted to achieve over the next four years, Jones said: "England to be the most dominant team in the world.

Former Japan head coach Eddie Jones
Image: Eddie Jones aiming high for his new England team

"We go out to Twickenham, we can kill a team up front, we scrum them to death. We can maul them to death. But at the same time when we get the ball in our 22 and they have four people back and there's a five on three, we score a length- of-the-field try and they will be playing good rugby."

Elite sport in England is awash with imported coaches from Down Under right now with Trevor Bayliss flourishing with the country's cricket team. England face South Africa from Friday in the fourth Test having already wrapped up the series.

Jones admitted he would be delighted to replicate the impact of Bayliss.

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The 55-year-old former Japan coach added: "He's obviously had a great effect on the team. The players are playing with great freedom and really expressing themselves.

"It's what we want the England side to do. When you are a rugby player you have to believe in a certain way you can win and believe in a certain style and have pride in that style. So what we have to do is create that English style of play."

England's new skipper is expected to be announced on Monday.

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"The captain has to aim to be the best player," Jones said. "I'm not going to go through the squad and say he's the best player so he is going to be captain. There are other considerations to take in such as how he relates to the coaches and how he relates to the players.

"I want the captain to be a guy who is always going to be on the team sheet and when he goes out there his first job is to be our best player.

"That's how a captain should behave. Captaincy is like being the prime minister of the country. He has a cabinet and he consults the cabinet and gets the right information and makes the decision."

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