Eben Etzebeth has been cleared to face the All Blacks in a Rugby Championship match at Ellis Park this Saturday.
The towering lock was initially left out of the matchday-23 because of an injury, but now replaces Marco van Staden in the team.
The veteran second row forward who has played 124 Tests was cleared to play after completing all the team’s training sessions this week and will now play off the bench in the crunch match.Pieter-Steph du Toit and Ruan Nortje will start the match as the lock pairing.“Our selection policy has always been that if a player does not train on a Monday he will not play on Saturday, but, so we had to make the tough call to name him in the squad at the expense of Marco,” said Erasmus on Wednesday.
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