WORCESTER Wanderers quartet Tom Dodge, Mike Dodge, Olly Meadows and Dave Whiting will start for Worcestershire & Herefordshire tonight against holders Shropshire in the Iskitz Three Counties Championship at Kidderminster Carolians (7.30pm).

Malvern duo Adam Dixon and Craig Freeman, Evesham’s James Roberts and Droitwich’s Russ Brown are also in the squad.

Bredon Star scrum-half Stuart Doust will make his belated debut for Worcestershire & Herefordshire.

Doust was due to make his county bow against Greater Birmingham last week but the match was cancelled when Birmingham could not raise a side.

The match is a re-run of last season’s final, which Shropshire won 24-13 to complete a hat-trick of titles.

Worcestershire & Herefordshire: Holloway (Old Halesonians); Oxford (Old Halesonians), Meadows (Worcester Wanderers), Dixon (Malvern), Dodge (Worcester Wanderers); Rayner (Old Halesonians), Doust (Bredon Star); Bratt (Dudley Kingswinford), Roberts (Evesham), Whiting (Worcester Wanderers), Parry (Dudley Kingswinford, captain), Preece (Hereford), Martin (Old Halesonians), Tom Dodge (Worcester Wanderers), Macfarlane (Old Halesonians). Replacements: Hudson (Dudley Kingswinford),Freeman (Malvern), Brown Droitwich), Field (Old Halesonians), Pinner (Kidderminster Carolians),Wilson (Stourbridge Lions), Jefferson (Dudley Kingswinford).