Jacques Nienaber named a seven-one split on the Springbok bench for Saturday’s World Cup pool encounter against Ireland.
Nine players who sat out Sunday’s 76-0 win over Romania return to the starting line-up while four others move from the bench to the starting XV for another pivotal encounter in the Pool B ‘Group of Death’.
Overall, the team reunites the starting combination that defeated Scotland 18-3 in the opening pool match, except for hooker where Mbonambi starts in place of the injured Malcolm Marx. Outside them, halfbacks Faf de Klerk and Manie Libbok reunite, while Kurt-Lee Arendse and Cheslin Kolbe will patrol the wings outside of the centre pairing of Damian de Allende and Kriel.
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