Joseph To Join The 50 Club As Bath Face Toulon

Centre Jonathan Joseph will make his 50th Bath Rugby appearance in this Sunday's European Rugby Champions Cup match in Toulon, kick-off at 16.15, local time.

In the Club's first ever competitive meeting with the three-time European champions, Stuart Hooper returns to captain the team in a second row also featuring Wales international Dominic Day.

In the front row, Nick Auterac (loosehead), Rob Webber (hooker) and David Wilson (tighthead) start together for the second time this season. The back row of blindside Matt Garvey, openside Francois Louw and number eight Leroy Houston is the same that started Bath's 19-16 Champions Cup victory against Leinster in November.  

Named at nine and ten respectively are Chris Cook and George Ford, outside whom in the back line are centres Kyle Eastmond and Joseph. For the sixth time this season, wings Matt Banahan and Semesa Rokoduguni and fullback Anthony Watson form the back three.   

The game will be shown live on BT Sport Europe, with coverage starting from 15.00 UK time.

Bath Rugby team to face Toulon

15 Anthony Watson

14 Semesa Rokoduguni

13 Jonathan Joseph

12 Kyle Eastmond

11 Matt Banahan

10 George Ford

9 Chris Cook

1 Nick Auterac

2 Rob Webber

3 David Wilson

4 Stuart Hooper (c)

5 Dominic Day

6 Matt Garvey

7 Francois Louw

8 Leroy Houston

Replacements

16 Ross Batty

17 Max Lahiff

18 Henry Thomas

19 Charlie Ewels

20 David Denton

21 Jonathan Evans

22 Rhys Priestland

23 Tom Homer