MALVERN RFC travel to Sharmans Cross Road tomorrow (Saturday) to take on the second string of National Division One side Birmingham and Solihull.

Director of rugby Dave Robins said: "This will be a strong test for our squad. The 'Bees' are in the same league as Worcester and most of the players we face will have top-level experience.

"It will do our lads good to come up against such experience and will hopefully be a good sharpener for the league game against Camp Hill next week."

Duncan Short replaces the injured Vince Hill in the second row whilst Ollie Banwell takes over from the unavailable Alex Thomas at open side flanker. Paul Hart moves to number eight for the resting Dave Merlin and teenager Alistair Hills has another outing in the centre as part of his development.

Kick off is at 2.15pm with players meeting at Spring Lane at noon.