Owen Farrell will lead Saracens’ attack in tomorrow Premiership final against Northampton at Twickenham.
The England fly-half suffered a slight ankle strain in the warm-up of last week’s Heineken Cup final against Toulon but, as expected, he has recovered in time and will wear the No.10 jersey.
He will partner Neil de Kock at half-back with the South African keeping the rotation with Richard Wigglesworth who started at the Millennium stadium last week.
It is not as good news for Mako Vunipola who failed to recover from the knee injury he sustained against Toulon and wee Richard Barrington start at loosehead.
Elsewhere, Steve Borthwick will draw the curtain on his glittering 16-year career starting at lock with Mouritz Botha alongside him.
Meanwhile, Northampton have made two changes from the team that won the Amlin Challenge Cup in Cardiff last week.
Kahn Fotuali’i comes in at scrum-half swapping places with Lee Dickson while Salesi Ma’afu returns to tighthead after serving his week-ban for punching Tom Youngs in the Premierhsip semi-final.
Tom Mercey drops to the bench where he will be joined by club captain Dylan Hartley who will make his return to competition after recovering from a shoulder injury.
Saracens: Alex Goode; Chris Ashton, Marcelo Bosch, Brad Barritt, David Strettle; Owen Farrell, Neil de Kock; Richard Barrington, Schalk Brits, Matt Stevens; Steve Borthwick (Capt.), Mouritz Botha; Kelly Brown, Jacques Burger, Billy Vunipola.
Replacements: Jamie George, Rhys Gill, James Johnston, Alistair Hargreaves, Jackson Wray, Richard Wigglesworth, Charlie Hodgson, Chris Wyles.
Northampton: Ben FODEN; Ken PISI, George PISI, Luther BURRELL, George NORTH; Stephen MYLER, Kahn FOTUALI’I; Alex CORBISIERO, Mike HAYWOOD, Salesi MA’AFU; Samu MANOA, Courtney LAWES; Calum CLARK, Tom WOOD (Capt.), Sam DICKINSON.
Replacements: Dylan HARTLEY, Alex WALLER, Tom MERCEY, Christian DAY, Phil DOWSON, Lee DICKSON, James WILSON, Tom STEPHENSON.
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