Scotland name team to host Wales in Six Nations round two

Gregor Townsend has named a Scotland team to play Wales this Saturday in Edinburgh that shows just one change from last Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations round one win over England in London.

The Scots were exciting 29-23 winners at Twickenham and Townsend has responded by beefing up his front row by including the fit-again Zander Fagerson at tighthead with WP Nel dropping to the bench and Simon Berghan missing out.

The 54-cap Fagerson had been injured during the winter while playing for Glasgow and although he was reported last week as being fit and available for selection to play England, Scotland thought it best that he waited a week before getting back into the selection.

Scotland (vs Wales, Saturday - 4:45pm)

15. Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs) 97 caps

14. Kyle Steyn (Glasgow Warriors) 6 caps

13. Huw Jones (Glasgow Warriors) 32 caps

12. Sione Tuipulotu (Glasgow Warriors) 12 caps

11. Duhan van der Merwe (Edinburgh Rugby) 24 caps

10. Finn Russell (Racing 92) 66 caps

9. Ben White (London Irish) 10 caps

1. Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh Rugby) 17 caps

2. George Turner (Glasgow Warriors) 31 caps

3. Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors) 54 caps

4. Richie Gray (Glasgow Warriors) 70 caps

5. Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby) – Vice-Captain – 60 caps

6. Jamie Ritchie (Edinburgh Rugby) – Captain – 37 caps

7. Luke Crosbie (Edinburgh Rugby) 3 caps

8. Matt Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors) 29 caps

Replacements:

16. Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors) 58 caps

17. Jamie Bhatti (Glasgow Warriors) 26 caps

18. WP Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) 51 caps

19. Jonny Gray (Exeter Chiefs) 73 caps

20. Jack Dempsey (Glasgow Warriors) 5 caps

21. George Horne (Glasgow Warriors) 19 caps

22. Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh Rugby) 39 caps

23. Chris Harris (Gloucester Rugby) 40 caps