FIVE international players return to the Bath Rugby starting line-up for tomorrow's European Rugby Champions Cup quarter-final against Leinster at the Aviva Stadium (3.15pm).

Fresh from England’s Six Nations campaign are Dave Attwood, George Ford, Jonathan Joseph and Anthony Watson, while Wales’ Paul James has recovered from a thumb injury suffered in the win against France to take his place in the team.

James starts at loosehead prop and is joined in the front row by hooker Rob Webber and tighthead Kane Palma-Newport. Attwood is named alongside captain Stuart Hooper in the second row.

The back row features blindside Carl Fearns, openside Francois Louw and number eight Leroy Houston. In the half-backs, scrum-half Micky Young partners fly-half Ford, the Six Nations’s top points scorer.

The tournament’s top try scorer, outside centre Joseph, is paired in the midfield with inside centre Kyle Eastmond for the first time since Bath’s quarter-final clinching victory against Glasgow Warriors in late January.

Full-back Watson anchors a back three containing wings Horacio Agulla and Matt Banahan.

Bath Rugby team to face Leinster: 15 Anthony Watson, 14 Horacio Agulla, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Kyle Eastmond, 11 Matt Banahan, 10 George Ford, 9 Micky Young, 1 Paul James, 2 Rob Webber, 3 Kane Palma-Newport, 4 Stuart Hooper (c), 5 Dave Attwood, 6 Carl Fearns, 7 Francois Louw, 8 Leroy Houston. Replacements: 16 Ross Batty, 17 Nick Auterac, 18 Max Lahiff, 19 Matt Garvey, 20 Alafoti Faosiliva, 21 Peter Stringer, 22 Sam Burgess, 23 Tom Homer.