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Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon) has been named ERC European Player of the Year 2013. The prestigious award crowns an outstanding season for the out-half who led the French club to a dramatic Heineken Cup final victory over ASM Clermont Auvergne at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

It's down to the wire now for the five contenders who have been shortlisted for the ultimate individual accolade in northern hemisphere rugby, ERC European Player of the Year 2013.

With the build-up to the Dublin 2013 European club rugby finals intensifying by the day, the four elite clubs of ASM Clermont Auvergne, Toulon, Leinster Rugby and Stade Francais Paris, who are focused on their quest for Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup silverware respectively, won't be the only clubs with Europe on their mind over the weekend of 17 and 18 May.

The Zimbabwe-born flyer has been out since April following knee surgery but has made a timely recovery for this key battle after 20 minutes in the British & Irish Cup last week.

Chavhanga said: "It did me a lot of good getting a few minutes before I hit the big time.

"I've done a lot of training with my rehabilitation and the conditioning but nothing beats game time."

Dragons also include fit-again centres Andy Tuilagi and Patrick Leecha as they look to bounce back from there 38-25 defeat at London Wasps.

Bayonne lost both their previous encounters with Newport - in 2006/7 - but head to Rodney Parade full of confidence after securing their biggest win in Europe over first-timers Rugby Mogliano with Wales scrum half Mike Phillips back in favour. Former All Black Joe Rokocoko scored one of his team's 11 tries.

ASM Clermont Auvergne	Benetton Treviso	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Cardiff Blues	Castres Olympique	Connacht Rugby
Edinburgh Rugby	Exeter Chiefs	Glasgow Warriors	Harlequins	Leicester Tigers	Leinster Rugby
Montpellier	Munster Rugby	Northampton Saints	Ospreys	Racing Métro 92	Sale Sharks
Saracens	Scarlets	Toulon	Toulouse	Ulster Rugby	Zebre

Agen	Bath Rugby	Bayonne	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Bizkaia Gernika RT	Bordeaux-Begles
Bucharest Wolves	Cammi Rugby Calvisano	Femi-CZ VEA Rovigo	Gloucester Rugby	Grenoble	I Cavalieri Prato
Leinster Rugby	London Irish	London Wasps	London Welsh	Mont de Marsan	Newport Gwent Dragons
Perpignan	Rugby Mogliano	Stade Francais Paris	Toulouse	Worcester Warriors

Date	Home	Score	Away	Att
10/1/13	Bayonne	25 - 22	Newport Gwent Dragons	1,922
20/10/12	Newport Gwent Dragons	19 - 22	Bayonne	4,054
19/1/07	Bayonne	15 - 32	Newport Gwent Dragons	4,000

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