Stuart Hogg has shaken off injury concerns to be named in Scotland’s team to face Argentina at Murrayfield on Saturday.
The Glasgow full-back sparked fears he might have aggravated an old ankle injury when he limped off in the narrow defeat to South Africa at the weekend.
But Hogg has since been given the all-clear by team doctors and takes his place in an otherwise experimental Scotland side to face the Pumas.
Head coach Townsend has made eight changes to the side that started against South Africa, with Finn Russell shifting to inside centre and Adam Hastings coming in at fly-half.
Allan Dell, Fraser Brown and Simon Berghan form a new-look front row, with lock Grant Gilchrist and back-row duo Jamie Ritchie and Josh Strauss also restored to the side.
There is again no place in the 23 for Gary Graham, who was controversially called up by Townsend this autumn after being named in England’s Six Nations squad last season.
Scotland face another tough assignment against the Pumas after their defeat to South Africa — just the second loss in their last 11 tests at Murrayfield.
Scotland team to play Argentina
Hogg, Maitland, Jones, Russell, Kinghorn, Hastings, Laidlaw, Strauss, Dell, Brown, Berghan, Gilchrist, Gray, Ritchie, Watson
Replacements: McInally, Allan, Nel, Skinner, Wilson, Horne, Dunbar, McGuigan.