BORDERER Darcy Graham will make his eagerly-awaited return from injury after being named in today’s starting XV for Edinburgh’s United Rugby Championship match away to Connacht.

Prior to sustaining medial collateral ligament damage at the start of December, the talismanic wing was the URC’s top try-scorer and was also on a high after his hat-trick in the national team’s victory over Argentina in the last of the Autumn Tests.

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Graham is joined in the Edinburgh side by returning Scotland trio Blair Kinghorn, Sam Skinner and Grant Gilchrist, while WP Nel is on the bench.

Duhan van der Merwe, Jamie Ritchie, Pierre Schoeman and Hamish Watson have been given the weekend off after their recent Six Nations exploits.

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Head coach Mike Blair said: “It’s great to welcome some of our international guys back into the team, and to see Darcy back fit. He’s been in full training for the last couple of weeks and has been looking sharp, so having him back is a real boost.”