The Springbok side to face the Wallabies on Saturday at Loftus, has been announced.
Two late changes have been made to the Springbok 22, with Francois Steyn failing a late fitness test and Coenie Oosthuizen also not fit enough to man the bench. Jean de Villiers moves to inside centre and Jaco Taute will make his Springbok debut at outside centre. PatCilliers replaces Coenie Oosthuizen on the bench.
It took guts and determination from Heyneke Meyer and clearly he has the best interests of Springbok Rugby as well as the individual interests of the players at heart, when making some hard and big decisions.
Johan Goosen starts at flyhalf and Andries Bekker starts at No 5 lock in place of Juandré Kruger. Elton Jantjies is on the bench and Morné Steyn drops out of the match 22 alltogether.
Flip van der Merwe moves down to the bench after a strong game against the New Zealand All Blacks, but one has to mention that Flip is carrying a niggling injury and did not practice with the squad on Monday and Tuesday.
Springbok team: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jaco Taute, 12 Jean de Villiers (Captain), 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Pat Cilliers, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Marcell Coetzee, 20 Elton Jantjies, 21 Juan de Jongh, 22 Patrick Lambie.
A slightly surprising move was to initially select Coenie Oosthuizen on the bench, despite only having played 35 minutes of Currie Cup rugby after returning from injury and then sitting out of Monday’s practice to to some general stiffness. As we now know, Pat Cilliers has now replaced Coenie on the bench as prop cover.
Eben Etzebeth returns to the squad after serving his one week suspension for the head butt on Nathan Sharpe.
Patrick Lambie will have to be content to warm the bench again after there was widespread calls for his inclusion at fullback in place of Zane Kirchner.
Only 2 Runs from over 8
Blommetjies need another quick wicket to consolidate their advantage.
Taute will start against the Wannabees on Sat
Pakistan 57 / 4 after 11 overs
123 @ Lion4ever:
Yip, the Article was changes accordingly some minutes ago
@ Lion4ever:
We should klap these Wannabee Wobblies stukkend no matter who plays for the Boks.
Mooi so, Blomme! Now the Pakkies are in deep doodoo.
Pakistan 63 / 5 after 11.5 overs
Afridi departs….
Pakistan 63 / 6 after 12.1 overs
The 6th Pakkie wicket falls and now the fat lady lady is warming up.
7 overs left…. Pakis need 68 to win
Come on Blomme, take another wicket!
Wickettttt!
Pakis 76 / 7 after 14.3 overs
Now we must cleanup the tail!
And the fat lady takes a deep breath and prepares to step on stage.
Pakistan 76 / 7 after 15 overs
5 Overs left… 58 needed, at 11.6 per over
Eishh… 3 balls bowled…. 13 runs from the 3
Kommaan Kallis!
Kallis bowl a wide as well… freegin hell
The fat lady has been halted just as she was preparing to step on stage!
Pakistan 92 / 7 with 4 overs to go… need some tight overs now… eish and there’s a 4 off the 1st ball
Eishhh, no ball
The fat lady looking bewildered now – is she going to be allowed to sing or not?
Run-rate below 10 now…. very doable
6…. nee hel!
Flok, we’re throwing it away now
The fat lady is informed that there may be some problems and the show may be cancelled.
4… eish, double eish
turk @ 113
well summed up
but
in all fairness, i have always tended (even on the dark side) to try and soften (if you like) my comments with humour … it always made sure that i kept a good relationship with (almost) everyone on the blog/s, but it also helped keeping me calm when i felt quite strongly about something!! (see? there i almost went and put a “grin” at the end, lol)
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