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Finn Russell joins seven England stars on show as Bath meet Saracens
By Josh Raisey
Finn Russell will start at fly-half for Bath on Friday as they host Saracens in the return to Gallagher PREM action.
Just six days after a try-scoring display in a defeat to Ireland in the final day of the Guinness Six Nations, Russell will start alongside Ben Spencer, who started for England later that day against France.
Spencer’s England team-mates in Paris, Guy Pepper and Sam Underhill, who earned his 50th England cap at the Stade de France, will be on the bench at the Rec, while Ollie Lawrence and Henry Arundell, who last featured in round three against Ireland, will start.
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Saracens will also boast a couple of England internationals, with Elliot Daly starting at full-back after featuring in the final two rounds of the Championship in the same position.
Ben Earl, who started every match for England and made the third-most carries in the competition’s history, will start on the bench for a match that will lift them into the top four of the PREM should they beat the reigning champions.
Bath XV: 1 Beno Obano, 2 Tom Dunn, 3 Archie Griffin, 4 Quinn Roux, 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Josh Bayliss, 7 Miles Reid, 8 Alfie Barbeary, 9 Ben Spencer (c), 10 Finn Russell, 11 Will Muir, 12 Max Ojomoh, 13 Ollie Lawrence, 14 Henry Arundell, 15 Tom de Glanville
Replacements: 16 Kepu Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Thomas du Toit, 19 Ted Hill, 20 Guy Pepper, 21 Bernard van der Linde, 22 Santi Carreras, 23 Sam Underhill
Saracens XV: 1 Eroni Mawi, 2 Theo Dan, 3 Marcus Street, 4 Nick Isiekwe, 5 Hugh Tizard, 6 Theo McFarland, 7 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 8 Tom Willis, 9 Ivan Van Zyl (c), 10 Owen Farrell, 11 Rotimi Segun, 12 Nick Tompkins, 13 Lucio Cinti, 14 Tobias Elliott, 15 Elliot Daly
Replacements: 16 James Hadfield, 17 Alex O’Driscoll, 18 Marco Riccioni, 19 Andy Onyeama-Christie, 20 Ben Earl, 21 Gareth Simpson, 22 Fergus Burke, 23 Max Malins
