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Team news: Tigers at Harlequins

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Tom Croft and Logovi'i Mulipola return to the Leicester Tigers squad for Saturday's Aviva Premiership Round 13 game away to Harlequins.England international Croft joins Julian Salvi and Jordan Crane in the Tigers back row and makes his 100th appearance in Premiership rugby.   The return of Croft is the only change to the Tigers starting line-up after last week’s win against Bath at Welford Road. Jamie Gibson provides back-row cover among the replacements.   Samoa international prop Mulipola is included in the matchday squad for the first time since suffering an Achilles injury in the Round 3 defeat at Bath back in September.   Saturday’s match has been confirmed as a 14,800 sell-out at The Stoop. There is live TV coverage on BT Sport. Or you can follow all of the action with the Tigers official Facebook and Twitter accounts, or on the club website.   Leicester Tigers (v Harlequins, The Twickenham Stoop, Saturday 3.15pm) 15 Mathew Tait 14 Adam Thompstone 13 Vereniki Goneva 12 Anthony Allen 11 Miles Benjamin 10 Owen Williams 9 Ben Youngs (c) 1 Marcos Ayerza 2 Tom Youngs 3 Fraser Balmain 4 Graham Kitchener 5 Geoff Parling 6 Tom Croft 7 Julian Salvi 8 Jordan Crane   Replacements 16 Leonardo Ghiraldini 17 Michele Rizzo 18 Logovi’i Mulipola 19 Sebastian De Chaves 20 Jamie Gibson 21 Sam Harrison 22 Freddie Burns 23 Seremaia Bai Harlequins: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Marland Yarde, 13 Matt Hopper, 12 George Lowe, 11 Ugo Monye, 10 Ben Botica, 9 Danny Care; 1Joe Marler (c), 2 Joe Gray, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 4 Charlie Matthews, 5 George Robson, 6 Jack Clifford, 7 Chris Robshaw, 8 Nick Easter Replacements: 16 Rob Buchanan, 17 Darryl Marfo, 18 Will Collier, 19 Sam Twomey, 20 Joe Trayfoot, 21 Karl Dickson, 22 Tim Swiel, 23 Tom Williams