Bristol Bear duo Call Lam Shady and Eoin Lloyd have been named in Van Pivak’s final Wales Fall Nations Cup to face Italy in Leyland on Saturday.
Kumlum comes in to replace Dan Bigger in the Shady fly-half, while Kieran Hardy partnered for the second time in the campaign with an 18-0 win over Georgia.
Saturday will be Shady’s fourth cap for his country, which made its debut against Ireland earlier this fall and will be out of the bench against England last week.
Johnny Williams ’partnership in midfield is George North. The final start in the north midfield was Wales’ 42-0 win over Italy in the Guinness Six Nations earlier this year.
With Lewis Rees-Zammit, Josh Ams Dums and Liam Williams on bench-three named in Lloyd’s bench in Bristol, his win over Georgia was reversed in preparation for earning a second cap.
Head coach Van Piwak said: “Saturday is another opportunity for these players and as a team we have another opportunity to continue building it and see the results of all the hard work of training.
“We have bloodied eight new caps in this campaign and it is important that by the end of the match there would have been a number of performances in the name of each of them.
“From the beginning we wanted this campaign to be about giving players a chance and we did that.
“Hard work is being done for training and we want to show it again on Saturday and finish the campaign at the highest level, with a desire for performance and results.”
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Wales team to play Italy (Saturday 5 December, KO 16.45 Amazon Prime / S4C)
1. Nicky Smith (sp spray) (Caps 37 caps)
2. Sam Perry (sp spray) (3 caps)
3. Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs) (51 caps)
Will. Will Rolllands (Veps) (Caps Caps)
5. Alun Win Jones (O spray) (142 caps) (CAPT)
6. James Botham (Cardiff Blues) (2 caps)
7. Justin Tipuric (sp spray) (Caps 79 caps)
8. Touloupe Feltau (Bath) (80 caps)
9. Kieran Hardy (Scarlets) (1 cap)
10. Culum Shady (Bristol Bear) (3 caps)
11. Louis Rees-Zammit (Gloucester) (3 caps)
12. Johnny Williams (Scarlets) (2 caps)
13. George North (sp spray) (Caps 97 caps)
14. Josh Adams (Cardiff Blues) (29 caps)
15. Liam Williams (Scarlets) (66 caps)
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16. Elliott D (Dragon) (32 caps)
17. Win Jones (Scarlets) (29 caps)
18. Leon Brown (Dragon) (11 caps)
19. Corey Hill (Cardiff Blues) (28 caps)
20. Aaron Wainwright (Dragon) (26 caps)
21. Gareth Davis (Scarlets) (56 caps)
22. Eoan Lloyd (Bristol Bear) (1 cap)
23. Jonah Holmes (Dragon) (4 caps)
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