Date: Fri 21 Dec 2012

Marland Yarde has recovered from injury and will start for London Irish against Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership at Madejski Stadium tomorrow afternoon (kick-off 3pm).

Ian Humphreys will start at fly half and Jebb Sinclair joins Declan Danaher and Chris Hala’ufia in the back row.

London Irish Director of Rugby Brian Smith said: “It will be great to be playing back at the Madejski in front of our home crowd tomorrow. Leicester has been the benchmark team in the Aviva Premiership for a long time now and they’ll give us a thorough examination. In saying that we don’t fear any team in this league and the boys are itching to play the Tigers.”

London Irish team to face Leicester Tigers:

15. Tom Homer; 14. Topsy Ojo*; 13. Jonathan Joseph*; 12. Sailosi Tagicakibau*; 11. Marland Yarde; 10. Ian Humphreys; 9. Darren Allinson; 1. Max Lahiff; 2. David Paice*; 3. Halani Aulika*; 4. Bryn Evans*; 5. Matt Garvey; 6. Declan Danaher (Captain); 7.Jebb Sinclair*; 8. Chris Hala’ufia*

Replacements: 16. Scott Lawson*; 17.Jerry Yanuyanutawa*; 18.Leo Halavatau; 19. Kieran Low; 20. Jamie Gibson; 21. Guy Armitage; 22. Shane Geraghty*; 23. Jack Moates

*Denotes Internationals