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Grant Gilchrist to skipper Scotland against Italy
ESPN Staff
August 18, 2015
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Grant Gilchrist will captain Scotland against Italy on Saturday in Rome.

Gilchrist takes over the skipper's armband from Henry Pyrgos in a squad that shows wholesale changes from the team that lost in Dublin to Ireland last weekend. There are 11 changes in total with nine coming in the pack.

Kevin Bryce, Alasdair Dickinson, Richie Gray, Stuart McInally and Willem Nel come in for Fraser Brown, Allan Dell, Ryan Grant, Rob Harley, and Jon Welsh while Adam Ashe, John Hardie, Alasdair Strokosch and Hamish Watson are also called upon.

In the backs uncapped duo Damien Hoyland and Rory Hughes replace Dougie Fife and Tim Visser respectively.

Forwards: Adam Ashe, Kevin Bryce, Mike Cusack (all Glasgow Warriors), Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Grant Gilchrist CAPTAIN (all Edinburgh Rugby), Richie Gray (Castres), Jim Hamilton (Saracens), John Hardie (unattached), Stuart McInally, Willem Nel (both Edinburgh Rugby), Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors), Alasdair Strokosch (Perpigan), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh Rugby).

Backs: Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh Rugby), Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Damien Hoyland (Edinburgh Rugby), Rory Hughes (Glasgow Warriors), Ruaridh Jackson (Wasps), Sean Lamont, Henry Pyrgos (both Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott, Greig Tonks (both Edinburgh Rugby), Richie Vernon, Duncan Weir (both Glasgow Warriors),

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