Mcdowall To Lead Scotland Against Maori All Blacks

Glasgow Warriors centre Stafford McDowall will skipper Scotland for their lucifer against nan Maori All Blacks, nan first connected their Pacific tour.

McDowall led Scotland successful November against Portugal and featured successful each 5 of their Six Nations matches successful nan absence of nan past injured Sione Tuipulotu.

His Warriors team-mate George Horne is 1 of 2 vice-captains and starts astatine scrum-half, nan different being Bath back-row Josh Bayliss.

Horne is nan astir knowledgeable subordinate successful Gregor Townsend's starting 15 pinch 36 caps, though nan lucifer successful Whangarei is not an charismatic Test match.

Adam Hastings is astatine fly-half and Northampton Saints centre Rory Hutchinson is extracurricular McDowall having initially been near retired of nan squad, earlier an wounded to Edinburgh's Matt Currie.

In nan forwards, Glasgow prop Fin Richardson is named successful a elder Scotland broadside for nan first clip alongside his nine team-mate Nathan McBeth, and Edinburgh's Patrick Harrison is astatine hooker.

George Turner will make his Scotland return from nan bench, having only precocious travel backmost from a spell successful Japan to motion for Harlequins.

Uncapped Saracens fly-half Fergus Burke, who was calved successful New Zealand, is besides among nan replacements.

Scotland return connected nan Maori All Blacks connected Saturday (04:35 BST), earlier facing Fiji successful Suva nan pursuing week and finishing their circuit astatine Eden Park successful Auckland against Samoa.

Scotland XV: Smith, Paterson, Hutchinson, McDowall (c), Reed, Hastings, Horne; McBeth, Harrison, Richardson, Sykes, Henderson, Bayliss, Onyeama-Christie, Muncaster.

Replacements: Turner, Hepburn, Hurd, Williamson, Brown, Masibaka, Burke, Dobie.