The Olympic sevens star will make only her second 15-a-side appearance in a team boasting more than 700 international appearances between them.

McAlister starts at 13 for the Barbarians and will complete the first brother-sister combination to represent the Baa-baas. Brother Luke appeared for the club in 2009.

Franks, a double World Cup winner with New Zealand, presented the jerseys to a squad containing eight different nationalities before being quizzed at length about his rugby career. 

The Barbarians are led by Wales's Rachel Taylor with other international captains on duty in the shape of Scotland’s Tracey Balmer and Isabel Rico Vazquez, whose Spain side beat the Netherlands in this year’s Rugby Europe Championship final.

Ben Franks and Kayla McAlister

Uncapped hooker Katharine Evans continues her resurgence from the long-term injury that threatened to end her career.

Evans spent four years out of the game with a complicated leg break but has been a key figure in Saracens rise to the top of the Tyrrell’s Premier 15 table this season.

Club rivalries are put to one side as she joins four Wasps players in the squad – Tina Veale, Claire Cripps, Vicki Jackson and German international Nora Baltruweit.

Entry to the match is free as the Army women’s side complete their build-up to next month’s inter-services games against the RAF and Royal Navy.

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