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Harry Ellis and Dan Hipkiss who are both England internationals will return from injury and begin at Leicester Tigers on Wednesday’s Guinness Premiership fixture against rivals Northampton at the ground, Welford Road.

They both missed the trip to Worcester and last weekends defeat to Wasps, but have been named in the starting 15 by Head Coach Heyneke Meyer in the first East Midlands derby since the last season as well as Tigers’ second home game over 5 days

Matt Smith has begun every game of the season so far, moving over to the wing, Hipkiss comes in to centre, with Ellis taking over from Julien Dupuy at the base.

Loosehead prop Stankovich will make his initial senior appearance of the season with Benjamin Kayser and Julian White in the front row, with Ben Herring returning at openside flanker after starting among the replacements last week.

The teams:

Leicester: 15 Geordan Murphy, 14 Johne Murphy, 13 Dan Hipkiss, 12 Aaron Mauger, 11 Matt Smith, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Harry Ellis, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Ben Herring, 6 Tom Croft, 5 Marco Wentzel, 4 Martin Corry (c), 3 Julian White, 2 Benjamin Kayser, 1 Boris Stankovich.
Replacements: 16 George Chuter, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Ben Kay, 19 Ben Woods, 20 Julien Dupuy, 21 Tom Youngs, 22 Tom Varndell.

Northampton: 15 Stephen Myler, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Joe Ansbro, 12 Chris Mayor, 11 Bruce Reihana (c), 10 Carlos Spencer, 9 Ben Foden, 8 Roger Wilson, 7 Scott Gray, 6 Mark Hopley, 5 Christian Day, 4 Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe, 3 Euan Murray, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Tom Smith.
Replacements: 16 Paul Shields, 17 Soane Tonga’uiha, 18 Alex Rae, 19 Ben Lewitt, 20 Lee Dickson, 21 Nils Mordt, 22 Sean Lamont.

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