BATH are hoping to welcome back backs Iain Balshaw and Matt Perry for the Parker Pen Challenge Cup quarter-final first leg match against Beziers in France on Saturday.

Head coach John Connolly is hoping World Cup winner Balshaw (above left) and British Lions full-back Perry (right) can return to boost a stretched three-quarter line.

And Mike Catt should come into contention for the second leg at the Rec in 10 days time.

Connolly said: "I have not yet given up hope that we could see Iain and Matt in action, but we will have to see how the week unfolds."

"Mike is looking good for a return in the second leg and that will be a major boost ahead of the Wasps' Zurich Premiership game."