FLANKER James Benjamin will captain the Dragons for the first time in tomorrow’s Guinness PRO14 clash with Munster in Cork (kick-off 7.35pm).

The 23-year-old back row forward leads the side at Musgrave Park in the absence of lock Cory Hill, who is in the Wales squad for the autumn internationals along with tighthead Leon Brown, hooker Elliot Dee and full-back Hallam Amos.

Head coach Bernard Jackman makes 10 changes to his XV from last week’s loss to the Ospreys in Swansea, four of them because of the international commitments and three because of injuries to centre Tyler Morgan and back rowers James Thomas and Lewis Evans.

Starts are given to full-back Will Talbot-Davies, centre Adam Warren, fly-half Angus O’Brien, scrum-half Charlie Davies, props Thomas Davies and Lloyd Fairbrother, hooker Gerard Ellis, lock Rynard Landman, blindside Aaron Wainwright and debutant number eight James Sheekey.

Flanker Ben Roach, a Wales 7s international, is poised for his Dragons bow from the bench while lock Scott Andrews and fly-half Arwel Robson are also among the replacements and set for their first regional outings of the season after summer operations.

Scrum-half Sarel Pretorius drops to the bench while fly-half Gavin Henson is rested.

Simon Zebo, left out of the Ireland squad ahead of his summer move to France, starts at full-back in a Munster side captained by lock Billy Holland.

South African flanker Chris Cloete makes his debut for the province while wing Darren Sweetnam and centre Chris Farrell start with fly-half Ian Keatley on the bench after the trio were released from the Irish camp.

Munster: S Zebo, D Sweetnam, C Farrell, R Scannell, A Wootton, JJ Hanrahan, D Williams, L O’Connor, R Marshall, S Archer, J Kleyn, B Holland (captain), J O’Donoghue, C Cloete, R Copeland. Replacements: K O’Byrne, J Cronin, B Scott, D O’Shea, M Flanagan, J Hart, I Keatley, S Arnold.

Dragons: W Talbot-Davies, A Hewitt, A Warren, J Dixon, J Rosser, A O’Brien, C Davies, T Davies, G Ellis, L Fairbrother, J Davies, R Landman, A Wainwright, J Benjamin (captain), J Sheekey. Replacements: L Belcher, L Garrett, B Harris, S Andrews, B Roach, S Pretorius, A Robson, P Howard.

Referee: Mike Adamson