Head coach Andy Farrell has made 14 changes to his team for Saturday’s third match of the summer tour of Australia against more Super Rugby Pacific opposition at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, having followed up their 54-7 thrashing of the Western Force in Perth by running in another eight tries in Wednesday’s 52-12 rout of the Queensland Reds in Brisbane.
Huw Jones is the only player to retain his starting berth from that latter match at Suncorp Stadium, where the first of three Tests against the Wallabies will be held on July 19, partnering Sione Tuipulotu in an all-Scotland centre combination.
Versatile full-back Kinghorn, meanwhile, is named on the wing with fellow Lions debutant Keenan at 15.
Honour: Ireland forward Tadhg Beirne captains the British and Irish Lions in Sydney
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Kinghorn only joined up with the squad this week after helping Toulouse to retain their Top 14 title against Bordeaux in Paris, while Keenan was due to start against the Reds after overcoming a calf complaint, only to have to withdraw on the morning of the game due to illness.
Williams’ replacement, Toulon scrum-half White, is named on the bench for the weekend having flown in from New Zealand, where he had been with the Scotland squad ahead of their summer Tests against Fiji and Samoa.
Northampton and England pair Alex Mitchell and Fin Smith resume their partnership at half-back, with Mack Hansen hoping to impress again on the opposite wing to Kinghorn.
With Maro Itoje not involved, Ireland forward Beirne captains the Lions in Sydney, following hooker Dan Sheehan as the second Irish skipper of the trip.
He lines up in an all-Irish second row with James Ryan, who makes his first Lions start after coming off the bench in Brisbane following injury.
Pierre Schoeman and Finlay Bealham are the starting props, with Luke Cowan-Dickie at hooker.
Budding England superstar Henry Pollock gets another start in the back row, at blindside flanker, alongside Josh van der Flier and Ben Earl.
Sheehan, Ellis Genge, Tadhg Furlong, Joe McCarthy, Scott Cummings, Jac Morgan and Marcus Smith all join White on a replacement bench with a 6-2 split in favour of the forwards.
British and Irish Lions team vs Waratahs
British and Irish Lions XV: Keenan; Hansen, Jones, Tuipulotu, Kinghorn; F Smith, Mitchell; Schoeman, Cowan-Dickie, Bealham; Beirne (c), Ryan; Pollock, Van der Flier, Earl
Replacements: Sheehan, Genge, Furlong, McCarthy, Cummings, Morgan, White, M Smith
