Gregor Townsend has made two injury-enforced changes to his Scotland side to face New Zealand this Saturday at BT Murrayfield.
Zander Fagerson and loose forward Cornell du Preez replace injured pair WP Nel and Ryan Wilson respectively. Du Preez is starting for his adopted nation for the first time.
Simon Berghan and uncapped Luke Hamilton come in on the bench, and lock Grant Gilchrist replaces the injured Tim Swinson.
Uncapped Sale Sharks wing Byron McGuigan also enters the match-day squad in place of last week’s debutant Chris Harris.
“The players are looking forward to getting back out on the pitch after last weekend’s high-scoring match against Samoa, which highlighted a few areas we’ve sought to improve this week at training,” said Townsend.
“The task of facing New Zealand is one of the biggest challenges in sport and one that our players relish. They have been in brilliant form this season and continue to set very high standards whenever they play.”
Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Tommy Seymour, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Alex Dunbar, 11 Lee Jones, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ali Price, 8 Cornell du Preez, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 John Barclay (c), 5 Jonny Gray, 4 Ben Toolis, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Stuart McInally, 1 Darryl Marfo
Replacements: 16 George Turner, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 Luke Hamilton, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Pete Horne, 23 Byron McGuigan
Date: Saturday, November 18
Venue: Murrayfield
Kick-off: 17:15 GMT
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)
Assistant referees: Romain Poite (France), Ian Davies (Wales)
TMO: Graham Hughes (England)
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