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England's players will have a specially devised warm-up planned in order to avoid problems surrounding pre-match delays caused by Friday night's big budget World Cup opening ceremony at Twickenham.

Stuart Lancaster’s men will begin their pre-match routine slightly earlier and in a different area of the pitch in order to accommodate the huge production expected to take over large swathes of the pitch before kick-off.

Stuart Lancaster's (left) have devised a special warm-up routine to cope with opening ceremony delays

George Ford (left), Sam Burgess (centre) and Mike Brown take part in training ahead of their Fiji opener

The opening ceremony, set to last about 20 minutes and focused on the theme of rugby union’s origins, will begin just over half an hour before kick-off but England forwards coach Graham Rowntree says all eventualities have been considered.

‘We’ve spoken about it at length,’ he said. ‘We’ve changed our warm-up slightly but we won’t change much. It’s one of those things. The boys are looking forward to being part of the whole thing.’

View of the opening ceremony ahead of the 2011, England's fanfare is expected to last 20 minutes