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Leicester v Maori All Blacks teams

George Ford and Matthew Tait have both been named in the Leicester starting XV to face the Maori All Blacks tonight at Welford Road.
Ford starts at fly-half while Tait, who made his return against Saracens on Saturday after 13 months on the sideline due to injury, comes in at full-back.
But they won’t be wearing the No.10 and 15 jerseys as the whole Tigers’ squad will wear letters instead of numbers.
The club is famously wearing letters by the their crest from A to O on match-day but this time numbers will be replaced by numbers on the back as well.
The shirts will also carry the Poppy Appeal logo. The shirts will be auctioned online by the club to raise funds for the annual Royal British Legion Poppy appeal.
Louis Deacon returns to captain the team, while fellow internationals George Chuter, Jordan Crane, Geordan Murphy and Anthony Allen, if released by England, are also in the 23.
Adam Thompstone, who scored a hat-trick on debut against Exeter, returns on the wing with Australian scrum-half Patrick Phibbs making his first start for the club.
Fraser Balmain is given a start in the front-row alongside the experience duo of Boris Stankovich and George Chuter.
Meanwhile, Maori All Blacks head coach Jamie Joseph has named a strong line-up full of Super Rugby experience.
Eleven players will make their debut for the occasion including Hurricanes flyer Andre Taylor who was the Super Rugby top-try-scorer this season.
Back row Shane Christie and Elliot Dixon, wingers Kade Poki and Kurt Baker, scrum-half Frae Wilson and centre Charlie Ngatai will join Taylor in the staring XV for their first outing with the famous touring side.
Quentin MacDonald, Nick Crosswell, Jamieson Gibson-Park and Declan O’Donnell are also set to make their debuts off the bench.
The side will be led by Chiefs flanker and 5-time capped All Black Tanerau Latimer.
Leicester: Tait; Morris, Smith, Allen, Thompstone; Ford, Phibbs; Stankovich, Chuter, Balmain; Deacon (capt.), Kitchener; Slater, Crane, Salvi.
Replacements: Harris, Stevens, Brookes, Noone, Thorpe, Harrison, Bowden, Murphy.
Maori All Blacks: Taylor; Baker, Ngatai, Bateman, Poki; Ripia, Wilson; May, Elliot, Afeaki; Hoeata, Eaton; Christie, Latimer (capt.), Dixon.
Replacements: MacDonald, Ellison, Murray, Graham, Crosswell, Gibson-Park, Willison, O’Donnell.

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