Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber has named his matchday-23 for the World Cup semi-final against England on Saturday.
The winner of the match will take on either New Zealand or Argentina, who clash on Friday night, in the final next weekend.
Manie Libbok will again wear the No 10 shirt in the World Cup semi-final. Picture: Steve Haag/Gallo ImagesCoach Jacques Nienaber named an unchanged team from last weekend’s quarter-final win against France. It means the Boks will again go into the match with a split of five forwards and three backs on their bench, the 2019 title-winning trio of Faf de Klerk, Handre Pollard and Willie le Roux providing backline cover.The matchday squad is the most experienced in Springbok history – with a combined total of 895 caps – with 15 of the 23 having played against England in the 32-12 victory in the RWC final four years ago in Japan when the Boks lifted the Webb Ellis Cup for the third time.
It is also only the second time that Nienaber named an identical line-up in 64 Tests since they took charge of the team in 2018. The only other occasion was in the opening match of the 2019 tournament, which was lost 13-23 to New Zealand.“We’ve been building a quality Rugby World Cup squad for the last few years so that we could be in this position going into the knockout matches,” said Nienaber.
“We have a squad of 33 players, all of whom are very closely matched in terms of their skill and quality of play which made it tempting to make changes this week and it was tough to select this group both last week and this week. But we feel it’s now time to go with the players in the squad who we believe are in their best form.”Former boss Heyneke Meyer warns Boks: ‘Don’t look past England’
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