Saint North lines up on the left win at Millennium Stadium with Warren Gatland’s side looking to conclude their warm-up series with a win - home and away fixtures already split one apiece with Ireland.
The Azzurri’s own preparation has been far from ideal – a pair of losses to Scotland including a 48-7 thumping at Murrayfield last weekend heading into Saturday’s game.
Kick off is at 5pm and the game is being shown live on BBC 2 Wales – available on Sky or Freesat channel 971.
WALES TEAM TO PLAY ITALY
Millennium Stadium
Saturday, Septmebr 5th, 2015
Kick off 5pm
15 Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon)
14 Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues)
13 Cory Allen (Cardiff Blues)
12 Scott Williams (Scarlets)
11 George North (Northampton Saints)
9 Rhys Webb (Ospreys)
1 Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues)
2 Ken Owens (Scarlets)
3 Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs)
4 Jake Ball (Scarlets)
5 Dominic Day (Bath)
6 James King (Ospreys)
7 Sam Warburton (capt)(Cardiff Blues)
8 Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons)
16 Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues)
17 Paul James (Ospreys)
18 Aaron Jarvis (Ospreys)
19 Luke Charteris (Racing Metro)
20 Ross Moriarty (Gloucester)
21 Gareth Davies (Scarlets)
22 Rhys Priestland (Bath)
23 Matthew Morgan (Bristol)
