France have made a host of changes for the one-off Test against the Wallabies at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night.
Fresh from an impressive drawn series with the All Blacks in New Zealand, coach Marc Lievremont has reshuffled his backline and will start a completely different halves combination in Dimitri Yachvili and Lionel Beauxis.
Five players have returned home with injury but the French will still field a strong side as they seek their first Test win on Australian soil since 1990.
Lievremont will not name his reserves until Friday.
France: Damien Traille, Maxime Medard, Florian Fritz, Maxime Mermoz, Cedric Heymans, Lionel Beauxis, Dimitri Yachvili, Julien Puricelli, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Thierry Dusautoir, Romain Millo-Chluski, Pascal Pape, Sylvain Marconnet, Dimitri Szarzewski, Fabien Barcella. Res: TBA.
SYDNEY AAP
