No O'Driscoll for Leinster in crunch Munster clash

Brian O'Driscoll will sit out Leinster's clash with Munster in Thomond Park tomorrow after suffering a calf strain during training.

O'Driscoll will be resting up ahead of the Heineken Cup opener against Ospreys next week, on the advice of Leinster's medical team.

Jamie Heaslip will take the captaincy for the game - his 15th time in charge - while Sean O'Brien also returns to the back row. Cian Healy, Sean Cronin and Mike Ross make up the front row, with Mike McCarthy and Devin toner rounding out the pack.

The out-half and half-back combination of Ian Madigan and Eoin Reddan features in a backs line including Lote Tuqiri and Gordon D'Arcy.

Leinster: Kearney, McFadden, Tuqiri, D'Arcy, Kearney, Madigan, Reddan, Healy, Cronin, Ross, McCarthy, Toner, McLaughlin, O'Brien, Heaslip (captain).

Replacements: Dundon, McGrath, Moore, Ruddock, Ryan, Boss, Gopperth, Fitzgerald.

Referee: Romain Poite. Assistants: Stuart Gaffikin, Michael Black. TMO: Simon McDowell.