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.
Fat lady back in the dressing room now and taking off her make-up.
Fark, take 2 wickets NOW!
4… 17 needed off 16 balls…. should be easy peasy for the Pakis now
Fat lady taking off her costume now and preparing to pack up.
Come on, bowl them stukkend!
15 needed off 12 balls… 14 to tie
Fat lady half way out the door now.
@ The_Young_Turk:
But Meyer has a problem. Taute will try to play the situation. As will Jantjies if he gets game time
Come on Dale Steyn!
Dale Steyn struck on the heel…. getting treatment
Fat lady’s limo is warming up the motor and the chauffeur is opening up the door.
Fark, Amla drops Gul
Wide… eish
9 needed from 7… 8 to tie
Wicketttttttt
Gul gone!
Phweeew, what a finish….
partnership 49 runs off 4,3 overs … not good enough!!!
@ Lion4ever:
Meyer doesn’t have problems with his favoured players. They can play as they like. Jantjies will probably not get any game time unless Goose is not 100%
Dot ball… great
6… full toss… eish
Morkel bowls a full toss and the fat lady gets in her limo and drives off.
2 needed from 3 balls…. 1 to tie
Edged for 4.
Pakistan wins
So close…. so close
And the Blommetjies lose, eish!
And that’s me off too. Ciao a tutti and see you guys tomorrow.
did we cho …. i mean panicked again?
just a question …. duminy bowled 2 overs and conceded 5 runs, johan botha bowled 2 for 10 runs. they did not bowl through because …. ?
womens t20 wc
nz women 151/5 vs sa women 129/9
nz women won by 22 runs
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f*k, nou moet die f*kken bokke oek nog net f*kken verloor f*kkenwil!!
ok ouens, sien almal het hulle nou gaan versyp, laat ek maar klaarmaak en dieselfde gaan doen!!
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