Regional team-mate Martyn Williams is on the bench for a strong looking Baa-Baas outfit coached by Blues Director of Rugby Young and Ospreys opposite number Scott Johnson.
Willie Mason will make his rugby union debut from the bench after switching codes by swapping Hull KR for French club Toulon. He is on the replacements bench alongside Williams. It will be the first time the 31-year-old former Australia league international has played a union match since leaving school.
Italy star Sergio Parisse leads the side with his Stade Francais colleague Bastareaud on the bench, just two of the 15 French based players in the match day squad.
Two other players currently plying their trade in France will make the first forays in BaBas rugby for their respective nations. Prop Davit Kubriashvili will be the first Georgian to play for the Barbarians while Erik Lund becomes the first Norweigian to pull on the jersey.
Their selection means 31 different nationalities have represented the team.
Wales have lined up against the famous black and white hoops on six occasions losing four times and winning just twice – when Jenkins was capped in 1996 and in the last outing in 2004.
The other capped international against the Barbarians was Wales’ first in 1990, which the Baa-Baas won 31-24. Warren Gatland’s summer clash with the Baa-Baas is the first of his RWC warm-up fixtures, with back to back matches against England (home and away) and Argentina (home) to follow in August.
Tickets remaining for the Barbarians and England clashes at the Millennium Stadium are priced at £40 and £30 for adults, £100 for a family ticket (2 adults 2 children) for the Baa-Baas game and £110 family ticket for the England match – with a new category introduced this season of £15 for the under 18s enclosure.
The final game on homes soil against Argentina is priced at £30 and £20 for adults, £70 for a family of four and £15 for the under 18s enclosure.
Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.eticketing.co.uk/principalitystadium/ or by calling the ticket hotline 08442 777 888.
Barbarians Team: N Jeanjean (Brive); P Sackey (Toulon), B Baby (Clermont Auvergne), M Bastareaud (Stade Francais), T Visser (Edinburgh); F Michalak (Toulouse), R Pienaar (Ulster); S Perugini (Aironi), L Ghiraldini (Benetton Treviso), D Kubriashvili (Toulon), E Lund (Biarritz), P Tito (Cardiff Blues), J van Niekerk (Toulon), G Smith (Toulon), S Parisse (Stade Francais, capt).
Replacements: S Bruno (Toulon), C Hayman (Toulon), Q Geldenhuys (Aironi), M Williams (Cardiff Blues), S Tillous-Borde (Castres Olympique), W Mason (Toulon), S Rabini (La Rochelle).
