Wales' Morgan Starts For Lions Against Pasifika Team

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 will skipper nan British and Irish Lions against a First Nations and Pasifika XV successful Melbourne connected Tuesday.

It is simply a first commencement of nan circuit for nan Saracen aft an quality disconnected nan chair against AUNZ Invitational successful Adelaide.

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

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

There are 9 Scots successful nan 23-man squad and each of nan alleged surface science players are included.

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

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

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

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

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

Jac Morgan will commencement astatine blindside for nan first clip connected tour, pinch Josh van der Flier and Henry Pollock making up nan backmost row.

Ewan Ashman, Rory Sutherland, Tom Clarkson and nan latest call-up, Gregor Brown, each capable nan chair arsenic coach Andy Farrell throws a protective broad complete 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 nan 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 nan first Test. Kinghorn is astir apt favourite to return over.

Might Farrell beryllium a chair contender connected Saturday if he performs good connected Tuesday, possibly astatine nan disbursal of Marcus Smith?

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

Does Farrell situation to break up nan Scottish midfield by picking Ringrose up of Huw Jones? If not, does he bring Ringrose connected to nan chair for Saturday up of countryman Bundee Aki?

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

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

Tuesday's opponents will beryllium captained by nan seasoned Kurtley Beale.

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

It is nan first crippled of its kind, a ceremony 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 nan 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