NORTH Midlands Under 16s will field a new centre pairing of George Karayiannis and Sam Harding for their final match of the short county programme against East Midlands at Droitwich tonight (7pm).

A number of North Midlands players have already achieved places in the Midlands assessment weekend at Solihull School on December 3 and 4 and so the selectors have taken the opportunity to make changes.

There are six other changes to the side that was beaten by Notts, Lincs and Derbyshire last Sunday with Louis Stelling, Richard Townsend, Samuel Lewis, Graham Kitchener, Chris Morgan and James Heggett all returning to the starting line-up.