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Tigers v Treviso team news

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Leicester Tigers welcome back England stars Tom and Ben Youngs, Geoff Parling, Manu Tuilagi and Dan Cole for Sunday's Heineken Cup match against Benetton Treviso at Welford Road (3pm).

All five played a part in all of England’s autumn Tests and return to club duties for the Pool 2 match against Italian club Treviso.

The Youngs brothers, Parling and Tuilagi are all included in the Tigers starting line-up by director of rugby Richard Cockerill, with Cole named among the replacements as Martin Castrogiovanni starts in the front row.

Vereniki Goneva is also back in a Tigers shirt after his autumn series with Fiji.

Scott Hamilton returns from injury and Dan Bowden is back in the starting line-up as Anthony Allen is ruled out.

Logovi’i Mulipola is included among the replacements after his recovery from injury.

Tickets for Sunday’s match are still available from the Tigers ticket office. Phone 0844 856 1880, call in or book online.

Leicester Tigers (v Benetton Treviso, Welford Road, Sunday 3pm)
15 Mathew Tait
14 Scott Hamilton
13 Manusamoa Tuilagi
12 Dan Bowden
11 Vereniki Goneva
10 George Ford
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 Tom Youngs
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Graham Kitchener
5 Geoff Parling (c)
6 Ed Slater
7 Julian Salvi
8 Thomas Waldrom

Replacements
16 Rob Hawkins
17 Logovi’i Mulipola
18 Dan Cole
19 Jordan Crane
20 Richard Thorpe
21 Micky Young
22 Geordan Murphy
23 Matt Smith

Benetton Treviso
15 Luke McLean
14 Christian Loamanu
13 Tommaso Benvenuti
12 Luca Morisi
11 Andrea Pratichetti
10 James Ambrosini
9 Edoardo Gori
1 Alberto De Marchi
2 Franco Sbaraglini
3 Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet
4 Antonio Pavanello
5 Valerio Bernabò
6 Simone Favaro
7 Dean Budd
8 Manoa Vosawai

Replacements
16 Leonardo Ghiraldini
17 Michele Rizzo
18 Lorenzo Cittadini
19 Cornelius Van Zyl 
20 Francesco Minto
21 Paul Derbyshire
22 Fabio Semenzato
23 Alberto Di Bernardo