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Scotland trio Grant Gilchrist, Darcy Graham and Pierre Schoeman return from Six Nations duty to start for Edinburgh in Saturday's URC match with Stormers in Cape Town.
Centre James Lang is also restored to the XV after a quad injury and starts alongside Matt Currie. Charlie Shiel and fly-half Ross Thompson form the half-back pairing.
There's a new front row after the defeat to Lions last week, with tighthead Paul Hill and hooker Ewan Ashman deployed alongside loosehead Schoeman. Gilchrist starts in the second row with Marshall Sykes.
Graham is on the wing alongside Malelili Satala while Piers O'Conor replaces Harry Paterson, who is ruled out with a quad injury, at full-back.
Edinburgh have lost four of their past five URC games to leave their play-off hopes hanging by a thread.
"We know it will be a tough challenge at DHL Stadium on Saturday but we've had a good training week and are in a good place to get a special result at the weekend," said head coach Sean Everitt.
"The Scotland guys being back is obviously a boost, but we'll need everyone at the top of their game to turn over the Stormers on their own patch."
Edinburgh XV to face Stormers: O'Conor, Graham, Currie, Lang, Satala, Thompson, Shiel, Schoeman, Ashman, Hill, Sykes, Gilchrist, McConnell, Richardson, Bradbury.
Replacements: Blyth-Lafferty, Venter, Williams, Young, Douglas, Vellacott, Tuipulotu, Brown.
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Centre James Lang is also restored to the XV after a quad injury and starts alongside Matt Currie. Charlie Shiel and fly-half Ross Thompson form the half-back pairing.
There's a new front row after the defeat to Lions last week, with tighthead Paul Hill and hooker Ewan Ashman deployed alongside loosehead Schoeman. Gilchrist starts in the second row with Marshall Sykes.
Graham is on the wing alongside Malelili Satala while Piers O'Conor replaces Harry Paterson, who is ruled out with a quad injury, at full-back.
Edinburgh have lost four of their past five URC games to leave their play-off hopes hanging by a thread.
"We know it will be a tough challenge at DHL Stadium on Saturday but we've had a good training week and are in a good place to get a special result at the weekend," said head coach Sean Everitt.
"The Scotland guys being back is obviously a boost, but we'll need everyone at the top of their game to turn over the Stormers on their own patch."
Edinburgh XV to face Stormers: O'Conor, Graham, Currie, Lang, Satala, Thompson, Shiel, Schoeman, Ashman, Hill, Sykes, Gilchrist, McConnell, Richardson, Bradbury.
Replacements: Blyth-Lafferty, Venter, Williams, Young, Douglas, Vellacott, Tuipulotu, Brown.
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