The 33-year-old scrum-half gets the opportunity as Jamison Gibson-Park, the man who has replaced him as first choice, has yet to play this term due to a hamstring problem.
DUBLIN - Andy Farrell said he is in awe of Conor Murray who will become the eighth Irish player to reach the 100 caps landmark when he starts against world champions South Africa in Saturday's autumn international Test match at Lansdowne Road.
"It is incredible how he has managed himself throughout his career and I know no one who has a bad word to say about him." Murray, whose try-scoring form dipped to the extent that he scored just one try in his last 29 Tests, is the sixth scrum-half to reach 100 caps. Farrell, though, has opted to select Hugo Keenan at full-back even though he too has yet to play this term owing to knee and abdominal injuries.
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