Retiring World Cup winner Wynand Olivier will line up for a strong Cavaliers team in their final Premiership Rugby Shield match of the season against Newcastle Falcons at Kingston Park on Monday (kick-off 4.00pm).
The centre, who was part of South Africa’s World Cup-winning squad, announced last week that he will retire at the end of the season but he remains committed to Warriors’ cause.
Olivier has scored a try in each of Cavaliers’ last two Shield matches, and will line up alongside scrum-half Jonny Arr whose 23-year association with Warriors will come to an end next month.
Lock Pierce Phillips, Zimbabwe international tighthead prop Farai Mudariki and flanker Matti Williams have all recovered from head injuries and will start against Newcastle.
Scrum-half Luke Baldwin has returned from a month-long loan with Harlequins and has been named among the replacements for a possible first appearance since the Cavaliers match at Sale Jets on December 30.
Loosehea dprop Kai Owen and lock James Scott are unavailable as they are involved in an England Under-20s squad session at Loughborough.
Newcastle have already topped the Northern Conference of the Shield and assured themselves of a home semi-final next month.
Cavaliers’ slim hopes of making the semi-finals were ended by Northampton Wanderers who beat Leicester Tigers Development XV on Saturday to secure runners-up spot in the Northern Conference.
Cavaliers
15 Scott van Breda
14 Perry Humphreys
13 Wynand Olivier
12 Will Butler (C)
11 Alex Hearle
10 Gareth Simpson
9 Jonny Arr
1 Jack Cosgrove
2 Isaac Miller
3 Farai Mudariki
4 Tom Dodd
5 Pierce Phillips
6 Matti Williams
7 Carl Kirwan
8 Matt Cox
Replacements
16 Llewellyn Phillips-Taylor
17 Alex Reid
18 Joe Morris
19 William Thomas-Hall
20 Sam Miller (Oxford University)
21 Luke Baldwin
22 Noah Heward
23 Mason Tonks