Date: Sat 31 October Time: 14:15 GMT Venue: Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli |
Coverage: Live on BBC TV, S4C, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Sport website and app |
Cardiff Blues blindside flanker Shane Lewis-Hughes will make his international debut by starting against Scotland in the delayed Six Nations finale on Saturday.
Lewis-Hughes, 23, was not named in the original 38-man squad.
Liam Williams returns to replace wing George North, while prop Tomas Francis and lock Will Rowlands are included.
Captain Alun Wyn Jones will break the world caps record by playing in his 149th international.
Wales head coach Wayne Pivac has made six changes to the side that lost 38-21 to France last Saturday.
Lewis-Hughes was brought in as injury cover for fellow back-rowers Ross Moriarty and Josh Navidi, who are both unavailable.
Navidi has not played this season after suffering concussion in a training session, while Moriarty was due to start in Paris before picking up an ankle injury.
Aaron Wainwright, Justin Tipuric and Taulupe Faletau formed the back row in Paris.
Tipuric and Faletau retain their starting placed but Wainwright is left out of the match-day squad, with James Davies kept on the bench as back-row cover.
Lewis-Hughes has played 36 times for Cardiff Blues since making his debut against in the 2016-17 season.
Other inclusion see the return of Exeter prop Francis and Wasps second row Will Rowlands to bolster the pack after facing each other in the English Premiership final last weekend.
Scarlets scrum-half Gareth Davies replaces the injured Rhys Webb, with Cardiff Blues number nine Lloyd Williams brought in as cover on to the replacements bench despite Kieran Hardy being named in the initial squad.
Centre Nick Tompkins drops to the bench after suffering a dead leg against France, with Owen Watkin taking his place at 12 to line up alongside Jonathan Davies in midfield.
Williams returns on the wing having played his first game in seven months for Scarlets against Benetton last Friday and forms a back three with Leigh Halfpenny and Josh Adams.
North and Gloucester teenage wing Louis Rees-Zammit drop out of the match-day 23.
Wales team
Leigh Halfpenny; Liam Williams, Jonathan Davies, Owen Watkin, Josh Adams; Dan Biggar, Gareth Davies; Rhys Carre, Ryan Elias, Tomas Francis, Will Rowlands, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Shane Lewis-Hughes, Justin Tipuric, Taulupe Faletau.
Replacements: Sam Parry, Wyn Jones, Dillon Lewis, Cory Hill, James Davies, Lloyd Williams, Rhys Patchell, Nick Tompkins.
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