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
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