Taulupe Faletau has recovered from injury to return to the Wales team for their first World Cup match against Fiji on Sunday, while Dewi Lake is not included in the side.
No 8 Faletau is fit to return to international action after a calf muscle problem kept him out of all of Wales' warm-up games, but he will now play for the first time since the Six Nations in their first match of the tournament.For Sunday's vital opening game against Fiji, Warren Gatland has named five World Cup debutants in Wales' starting line-up.
Wales coach Warren Gatland said: 'The squad has worked incredibly hard over the last few months and has been preparing well for Fiji in the last couple of weeks. 'Fiji are a good side with some great individual athletes and they play with a lot more structure now than maybe they have done traditionally.'We've had some good clarity about what we want to achieve and the way we want to play on the weekend.
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