Mick O'Driscoll will mark his 40th League appearance for Munster by captaining the side against Llanelli Scarlets on Sunday.
He is the only player certain to be chosen by Declan Kidney who will finalise his squad after training on Friday.
O'Driscoll gets the honour because Paul O'Connell is involved with the Irish squad as is vice-captain, Ronan O'Gara, while the other vice captain, Anthony Foley is injured.
Kidney has named a squad of 24 with either Jeremy Manning or Eoghan Hickey to start at fly half and the scrum half position rests between Gerry Hurley and Tomas O'Leary.
Lifemi Mafi is named amongst the threequarters following his impressive debut for the last ten minutes of the Heineken cup win over Bourgion.
Sean Cronin-understudy to the injured Jerry Flannery at Shannon-is naned as one of the two hookers, the other being Andy Kyriacou.
Munster squad: D Hurley, F Pucciariello, T Ryan, T Buckley, A Kyriacou, S Cronin, D Ryan, C Wyatt, M O'Driscoll capt, A Quinlan, T McGann, J O'Sullivan, J Coughlan, G Hurley, T O'Leary, J Manning, E Hickey, T Halstead, L Mafi, B Murphy, J Kelly, I Dowling, M Lawlor, S Payne.
