Spencer to spearhead Baa-baas

Barbarians coaches Bob Dwyer and Mike Ruddock have named a star-studded XV for Sunday's encounter with England at Twickenham.

Included in the line-up are players from seven countries as the Baa-Baas seek to stretch their winning run at England's 'HQ' to four games.

London Wasps and France hooker Raphaël Ibañez will lead the likes of Thomas Castaignède, Joe Roff and Andrea Lo Cicero into battle.

Carlos Spencer and Mark Robinson, who spearheaded the famous invitational side's thrilling 52-39 victory in the corresponding match last year, again feature at half-back.

Fellow All Black Bruce Reihana scored 22 points in that match from fullback but this time plays on the wing.

The starting side also includes three new Barbarians - Dominic Feau'nati, Tom Palmer and Toutai Kefu; four new boys - Isa Nacewa, Peter Bracken, Daniel Leo and Dave Hewett - are named in the provisional bench from which the seven replacements will be chosen.

Barbarians: 15 Matt Burke (Newcastle Falcons & Australia), 14 Bruce Reihana (Northampton Saints & New Zealand), 13 Thomas Castaignède (Saracens & France, vice-captain), 12 Dominic Feau'nati (London Irish & Samoa), 11 Joe Roff (Kubota & Australia), 10 Carlos Spencer (Northampton Saints & New Zealand), 9 Mark Robinson (Northampton Saints & New Zealand), 8 Toutai Kefu (Kubota & Australia), 7 Olivier Magne (London Irish & France), 6 Xavier Rush (Cardiff Blues & New Zealand), 5 Tom Palmer (London Wasps & England), 4 Bob Casey (London Irish & Ireland), 3 Christian Califano (Gloucester & France), 2 Raphaël Ibañez (London Wasps & France, captain), 1 Andrea Lo Cicero (L'Aquila & Italy).
Replacements (from): Mark Regan (Bristol Rugby & England), Peter Bracken (London Wasps), Daniel Leo (London Wasps & Samoa), Sam Harding (Northampton Saints & New Zealand), Justin Marshall (Ospreys & New Zealand), David Humphreys (Ulster & Ireland), Isa Nacewa (Auckland & Fiji), Fraser Waters (London Wasps & England), Dave Hewett (Edinburgh Gunners & New Zealand), Owen Finegan (Newcastle Falcons & Australia).

Date: Sunday, May 28
Kick-off: 15:00 (14:00 GMT)
Venue: Twickenham
Referee: Donal Courtney (Ireland)
Touch judges: Alain Rolland, George Clancy (both Ireland)
Assessor: Dougie Kerr