Wasps welcome back Bradley Davies, Ruaridh Jackson and Lorenzo Cittadini from Six Nations duty.

Lock Davies and fly-half Jackson start, along with winger Frank Halai, with Italy prop Cittadini on the bench. 

Flanker George Smith captains the side in the absence of the injured Matt Mullen. 

Wasps' 64-23 thumping of champions Saracens last week lifted them into the top four in the Premiership table.

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Replacements: Miller, Gopperth, Stevenson, Rieder, Cannon, Cittadini, Bristow, Festuccia.

South Africa flanker Francois Louw returns as one of seven changes to the Bath side that beat Worcester.

Chris Cook replaces Nikola Matawalu at scrum-half, while Ollie Devoto is released from England duty and comes in for Max Clark at centre.

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Replacements: Batty, Obano, Thomas, Garvey, Mercer, Evans, Williams, Clark.

Worcester win a couple of penalties in the opening stages.

They kicked for touch with the first one, which was just inside the Sale half, but Tom Heathcote knocks the second one through the sticks and the hosts have an early lead.

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So both 15:00 games under way and we've got a third game coming your way this afternoon, don't forget.

Bath and Wasps are no strangers to each other this season having met once already in the Premiership back in round two and twice in the pool stage of the European Champions Cup.

Wasps well and truly got the wood over the blue, black and whites the last time they met at The Rec in December.

Tries from Elliot Daly, Jimmy Gopperth (pictured above) and Alapati Leiua set them on their way to a convincing 36-10 victory.

Saracens' Charlie Hodgson gets proceedings under way in north London.

Sam Tuitupou leads Sale out on his 100th appearance for the Sharks, a warm round of applause for the former Worcester man.

We're off and running at a soggy Sixways. Sale's Danny Cipriani gets us going.

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As well as following our text commentary this afternoon, you can listen to all three games on your BBC local radio station.

To hear the games from Allianz Park, Sixways and the Rec simply click on the 'Live Coverage' tab at the top of the page and select your commentary of choice.

About five minutes to go until our first two matches get under way...

Will Saracens bounce back from their thumping last week? Can Worcester end their 13-game losing run? Is time running out for Mike Ford at Bath?

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Gloucester centre Henry Trinder is named on the bench as he returns from a hamstring injury.

Callum Braley replaces Willi Heinz at scrum-half, while Mark Atkinson starts at centre as one of five changes to the starting line-up that beat Harlequins.

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Replacements: Lindsay, Murphy, Doran-Jones, Savage, Rowan, Heinz, Trinder, Cook.

Saracens make SEVEN changes to the side which lost heavily at home to Wasps as skipper Alistair Hargreaves misses out with an ankle injury.

Brad Barritt captains Sarries in Hargreaves' absence, while full-back Ben Ransom and scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth are named in the starting XV.

United States forward Hayden Smith replaces Hargreaves at lock, and Rhys Gill, Will Fraser and Jackson Wray also come into the forward pack.

Duncan Taylor returns from international duty at outside centre.

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Replacements: Saunders, Lamositele, Figallo, Burger, Brown, Spencer, Mordt, Bosch.

Nothing has changed dramatically at Kingsholm, but since beating Harlequins last week Martin St Quinton has become sole owner of Premiership club Gloucester.

St Quinton can happily talk about a club that "isn't broken" and which has "a lot of good things".

His goals now - fill the stadium every week and target the Champions Cup. Grand plans, it seems. Good luck to him.

Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall says how his squad react to their heavy defeat by Wasps will be crucial as the club are in a "challenging period".

The Premiership leaders conceded three tries in the first eight minutes and eight in total as they were beaten 64-23 at Allianz Park last time out.

"We didn't see it coming and it's hard to put into words what happened out there," McCall told BBC Radio London.

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Sale have made five changes to their side, with number eight Josh Beaumont returning after being an unused reserve for England in Italy.

Sam Tuitupou comes in for his 100th appearance for the Sharks along with Jonathan Mills, Tom Arscott and Eifion Lewis-Roberts.

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Replacements: Briggs, Harrison, Mujati, Lund, Easter, Cusiter, Ford, Jennings.

South Africa scrum-half Francois Hougaard will make his Worcester debut at Sixways.

Hougaard's inclusion is one of four changes with Ryan Mills, Jaba Bregvadze and Dewald Potgieter also in the side.

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Replacements: Symons, Lamb, Baldwin, Dowson, Sanderson, Johnston, Leleimalefaga, Annett.

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Today will be Danny Cipriani's first appearance for Sale since announcing his decision to enact a break clause in his contract and return to his first club Wasps.

Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond thought he had convinced the 28-year-old fly-half to extend his four-season stay in Manchester but, now he's chosen to move on, Diamond says the club will be looking around the world for a replacement.

Time to start the build-up to today's three matches, and there's been plenty to keep us occupied in terms of news stories from the Premiership over the past few days...

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The Premiership's weekend fixtures got going last night, when Marland Yarde pounced on a late mistake from returning Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi to end Harlequins' three-game losing run.

You can read how the 25-19 win for Quins panned out by reading our match report.

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Who needs the Six Nations?

While Europe's main international competition takes a break for a week, the Premiership remains in full swing.

We've got three games to keep you updated with this afternoon from London, Worcester and Bath.