Murphy to captain Tigers against Leinster

Ireland international Geordan Murphy will captain Leicester Tigers from full-back against Leinster in a pre-season friendly at Welford Road in Friday night.

Summer signings George Skivington and Thomas Waldrom will make their first appearance for the English side.

There are 10 senior internationals with Puma Marcos Ayerza and Italian Martin Castrogiovanni coming into the front row.

"We've had a pretty tough week physically, but we've not got much time left before we open the season at Northampton Saints and we need to make sure we're fit and ready," said Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill.

LEICESTER TIGERS (v Leinster):

15 Geordan Murphy (c)

14 Scott Hamilton

13 Matt Smith

12 Anthony Allen

11 Alesana Tuilagi

10 Toby Flood

9 Ben Youngs

1 Marcos Ayerza

2 George Chuter

3 Martin Castrogiovanni

4 Calum Green

5 George Skivington

6 Craig Newby

7 Ben Woods

8 Thomas Waldrom.

Replacements (from):

Boris Stankovich

Rob Hawkins

Dan Cole

Dave Markham

Ed Slater

Ben Pienaar

Tom Armes

James Grindal

Jeremy Staunton

Lee Robinson

Manu Tuilagi

Dan Hipkiss

Horacio Agulla

Billy Twelvetrees