Veteran lock Eben Etzebeth will captain South Africa, who won this year's southern hemisphere Rugby Championship, as the Springboks look to end 2024 by beating Scotland, England and Wales.
LONDON - South Africa's double World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi is one of seven forwards among eight replacements in Rassie Erasmus's matchday 23 for the Springboks' tour opener against Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday.
Erasmus has made 11 changes to the starting team that thrashed Argentina 48-7 in the Springboks' closing Rugby Championship clash in Mbombela in September. South Africa beat Scotland 18-3 at last year's World Cup in France but will be facing a side buoyed by last week's 57-17 rout of Fiji."In the Rugby World Cup last year, we were only three points up against them at half-time, and with the new dynamic they have brought to their game, we know it's going to be an 80-minute battle."
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