Two changes for Italy

Published: Friday, 9. September, 2011 in category Northern Hemishere
Ghiraldini: Handed starting role

Leonardo Ghiraldini gets the nod ahead of Fabio Ongaro at hooker, while Alessandro Zanni is preferred to Paul Derbyshire in the back-row.

Ongaro drops out of the squad altogether, while Derbyshire is named on the bench.

There is no doubting the experience in the Azzurri line-up, though, with the team having racked up 677 Test appearances.

Italy: 15 A Masi, 14 T Benvenuti, 13 G Canale, 12 G Garcia, 11 M Bergamasco, 10 L Orquera, 9 F Semenzato, 1 A Lo Cicero, 2 L Ghiraldini, 3 M Castrogiovanni, 4 C del Fava, 5 C van Zyl, 6 A Zanni, 7 R Barbieri, 8 S Parisse (capt). Replacements: 16 T D'Apice, 17 L Cittadini, 18 M Bortolami, 19 P Derbyshire, 20 E Gori, 21 R Bocchino, 22 L McLean.