Wales Women: Kelsey Jones to make her first start of the season
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Wales Women have made eight personnel changes and two positional in the starting line-up to face Italy in the final round of the TikTok Women’s Six Nations.
Kelsey Jones, Cara Hope and Niamh Terry make their first starts of the season – at hooker, loosehead prop and full-back respectively; Alex Callender and Sioned Harries return to the starting line-up in the back row alongside Alisha Butchers with captain Siwan Lillicrap joining Gwen Crabb in the second row and Donna Rose returns at tighthead.
Behind the scrum, Ffion Lewis and Kerin Lake return to the starting line-up at scrum-half and inside centre, Robyn Wilkins moving back to outside-half to renew the half-back partnership that started against England.
Wales team v Italy Saturday 30 April 12 noon Cardiff Arms Park
15 Niamh Terry (Exeter Chiefs)
14 Lisa Neumann (Gloucester-Hartpury)
13 Hannah Jones (Gloucester-Hartpury)
12 Kerin Lake (Gloucester-Hartpury)
11 Jasmine Joyce (Bristol Bears)
10 Robyn Wilkins (Gloucester-Hartpury)
9 Ffion Lewis (Worcester Warriors)
1 Cara Hope (Gloucester-Hartpury)
2 Kelsey Jones (Gloucester-Hartpury
3 Donna Rose (Saracens)
4 Siwan Lillicrap (capt, Bristol Bears)
5 Gwen Crabb (Gloucester-Hartpury)
6 Alisha Butchers (Bristol Bears)
7 Alex Callender (Worcester Warriors)
8 Sioned Harries (Worcester Warriors)
Replacements:
16 Carys Phillips (Worcester Warriors)
17 Caryl Thomas (Worcester Warriors)
18 Cerys Hale (Gloucester-Hartpury)
19 Natalia John (Bristol Bears)
20 Bethan Lewis (Gloucester-Hartpury)
21 Keira Bevan (Bristol Bears)
22 Lleucu George (Gloucester-Hartpury)
23 Kayleigh Powell (Bristol Bears)