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Team news: Tigers at Bath

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Leicester Tigers bring Steve Mafi, Ed Slater and Scott Hamilton back into the starting line-up for Saturday's Aviva Premiership Round 2 match against Bath Rugby at the Recreation Ground.

Director of rugby Richard Cockerill includes Mafi in the forward pack following injury to Tom Croft, while Slater steps up into the second row after an appearance from the bench in the Round 1 win over Worcester Warriors last weekend. Hamilton comes in on the wing after missing the Round 1 game.

The team at Bath will also include Aviva Premiership debutant Sebastian de Chaves who joined Tigers this summer after a season in France with Mont de Marsan.

Anthony Allen leads the team as captain with Toby Flood and Louis Deacon sidelined.

Back-rower Jamie Gibson, a summer arrival from London Irish, is called into the matchday squad for the first time and scrum-half Sam Harrison is also included among the replacements.

Deacon and Geoff Parling are unavailable this week. They join Flood, Croft, Miles Benjamin, Gonzalo Camacho, Rob Hawkins, Graham Kitchener, Matt Smith, Mathew Tait, Manu Tuilagi and Ben Youngs on the sidelines. Marcos Ayerza is on international duty with Argentina.

Leicester Tigers (v Bath Rugby, The Recreation Ground, Saturday 3.15pm)
15 Niall Morris
14 Scott Hamilton
13 Vereniki Goneva
12 Anthony Allen (c)
11 Adam Thompstone
10 Ryan Lamb
9 Dave Mélé
1 Logovi’i Mulipola
2 Tom Youngs
3 Dan Cole
4 Ed Slater
5 Sebastian de Chaves
6 Steve Mafi
7 Julian Salvi
8 Jordan Crane

Replacements
16 Neil Briggs
17 Boris Stankovich
18 Fraser Balmain
19 Jamie Gibson
20 Thomas Waldrom
21 Sam Harrison
22 Owen Williams
23 Dan Bowden

Bath Rugby
15 Anthony Watson
14 Semesa Rokoduguni
13 Jonathan Joseph
12 Gavin Henson
11 Matt Banahan
10 George Ford
9 Peter Stringer
1 Paul James
2 Rob Webber
3 David Wilson
4 Stuart Hooper (c)
5 Dave Attwood
6 Matt Garvey
7 Guy Mercer
8 Leroy Houston

Replacements
16 Ross Batty
17 Nathan Catt
18 Anthony Perenise
19 Dominic Day
20 Alafoti Fa'osiliva
21 Micky Young
22 Tom Heathcote
23 Tom Biggs