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Big guns Malherbe, Orie and Jantjies return to fold for Stormers against London Irish

Springbok forwards Frans Malherbe and Marvin Orie have been included in the Stormers team to face London Irish in the Champions Cup at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday (19:30 SA time).

Fellow Bok Herschel Jantjies is one of two backs on the replacements bench and will earn his 50th Stormers cap when he comes on.

Willie Engelbrecht comes in at blindside flank for the injured Ernst van Rhyn, while in the backline scrumhalf Paul de Wet and wing Angelo Davids will both start after featuring among the replacements last week.

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Davids is in for Alapati Leuia, who has been ruled out with a minor injury, while Dan du Plessis has also been given a further week to recover, with Damian Willemse continuing at inside centre.

Stormers head coach John Dobson said that his team appreciated how important it was to win your home games in this competition.

"This is a very big game for us, apart from it being our first home game in the Heineken Champions Cup and historic from that point of view.

"It has been some time since we played at Cape Town Stadium and the team is looking forward to getting out there and making the most of it," he said.

Dobson paid tribute to scrumhalf Jantjies ahead of his milestone of 50 games.

"Herschel loves this team and at 26 still has many games for the Stormers ahead of him. It's a great achievement and he can be proud of what he has done in a DHL Stormers jersey over the last four seasons," he said.

Stormers:

15 Clayton Blommetjies, 14 Angelo Davids, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Damian Willemse, 11 Leolin Zas, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Paul de Wet, 8 Hacjivah Dayimani, 7 Willie Engelbrecht, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Salmaan Moerat, 3 Frans

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