Johnny Sexton out for Leinster’s Champions Cup opener

Robbie Henshaw will make his first start in the RDS Arena.

Johnny Sexton will sit out Leinster’s first game of the Champions Cup, against Castres in the RDS Arena on Saturday.

Head coach Leo Cullen announced his starting XV today and said Sexton would sit the game out due to “feeling a tightness in his hamstring at training”.