British and Irish Lions: Owen Farrell to captain against First Nations & Pasifika XV

First Nations & Pasifika XV v British & Irish Lions

Venue: Marvel Stadium, Melbourne Date: Tuesday 22 July Kick-off: 11.00 BST

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Owen Farrell volition skipper the British and Irish Lions against a First Nations and Pasifika XV successful Melbourne connected Tuesday.

It is simply a archetypal commencement of the circuit for the Saracen aft an quality disconnected the seat against AUNZ Invitational successful Adelaide.

Farrell volition play astatine wrong centre alongside Ireland's Jamie Osborne successful a Lions starting squad that does not see immoderate of the players who featured successful the first-Test win against Australia.

Three Test players from Brisbane are connected the seat - Ben Earl, Marcus Smith and Alex Mitchell, who has played successful each crippled connected the tour, including the warm-up lucifer against Argentina successful Dublin.

There are 9 Scots successful the 23-man squad and each of the alleged geography players are included.

Jamie George, a titan of the 2017 circuit successful New Zealand, starts astatine hooker aft helium was drafted successful from the England campy successful Argentina.

Blair Kinghorn is backmost from wounded and has been chosen successful his favoured presumption astatine full-back.

Both wings are Scottish, with Darcy Graham, 1 of the galore who person been called up arsenic cover, connected the close helping and Duhan van der Merwe connected the left.

Fin Smith and Ben White are the half-backs, conscionable arsenic they were successful the rout of AUNZ.

Pierre Schoeman and Finlay Bealham battalion down either broadside of George successful the beforehand row, with James Ryan and Scott Cummings renewing a concern that faced the Waratahs successful crippled 3 successful Australia.

Jac Morgan volition commencement astatine blindside for the archetypal clip connected tour, with Josh van der Flier and Henry Pollock making up the backmost row.

Ewan Ashman, Rory Sutherland, Tom Clarkson and the latest call-up, Gregor Brown, each capable the seat arsenic manager Andy Farrell throws a protective broad implicit his first-choice players. Mack Hansen, who has been battling injury, is not included.

The relevance of this crippled is constricted fixed that truthful galore of the 23 are firmly retired of Farrell's reasoning for Saturday's 2nd Test.

There are points of interest, however.

Kinghorn mightiness good beryllium playing for a starting spot fixed that Hugo Keenan was hit-and-miss successful the archetypal Test. Kinghorn is astir apt favourite to instrumentality over.

Might Farrell beryllium a seat contender connected Saturday if helium performs good connected Tuesday, possibly astatine the disbursal of Marcus Smith?

Garry Ringrose, who is acceptable again, was having a storming circuit earlier getting concussed against the ACT Brumbies successful Canberra.

Does Farrell situation to interruption up the Scottish midfield by picking Ringrose up of Huw Jones? If not, does helium bring Ringrose connected to the seat for Saturday up of countryman Bundee Aki?

The Lions backmost enactment performed wonderfully successful Brisbane truthful it is intolerable to spot a alteration there, but what astir the back-up?

It was Earl connected Saturday and it mightiness good beryllium Earl again, but Morgan, having played astatine 7 passim the tour, is present being fixed a changeable astatine six. He is warring for a spot successful the 23.

Tuesday's opponents volition beryllium captained by the seasoned Kurtley Beale.

The fly-half is 1 of six indigenous players, with the remainder of the squad made up of men with Pacific Islands heritage.

It is the archetypal crippled of its kind, a solemnisation of First Nations, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian and Cook Island culture.

Tonga-born prop Taniela Tupou and Fiji-born helping Filipo Daugunu person been released from the Australia campy to play for a squad coached by Australia 1999 World Cup victor Toutai Kefu.

First Nations & Pasifika XV: Muirhead, Reilly, Foketi, Feliuai, Daugunu, Beale, Thomas; Ieli, Paenga-Amosa, Tupou, Swain, Salakaia-Loto, Uru, Gamble, Tualima

Replacements: Asiata, Pearce, Doge, Vocevoce, Leota, Goddard, Debreczeni, McLeod

British and Irish Lions: Kinghorn, Graham, Osborne, Farrell, Van der Merwe, F Smith, White; Schoeman, George, Bealham, Ryan, Cummings, Morgan, Van der Flier, Pollock

Replacements: Ashman, Sutherland, Clarkson, Brown, Earl, Mitchell, M Smith, Ringrose