Pieter-Steph named captain as Springboks pick 4 debutants for Wales Test at Twickenham
Springbok loose forward Pieter Steph du Toit during the World Cup final against New Zealand in Paris in October. The Bok match-day squad features four uncapped players.Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has named his first team of the 2024 season for Saturday's Test against Wales at Twickenham.
There are also four uncapped players in the Bok 23-man line-up, with Lions duo - flyhalf Jordan Hendrikse and winger Edwill van der Merwe - to start, and Stormers pair - lock Ben-Jason Dixon and utility back Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu - to feature on the bench. Substitutes: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Ntuthuko Mchunu, 18 Frans Malherbe, 19 Salmaan Moerat, 20 Ben-Jason Dixon, 21 Grant Williams, 22 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 23 Damian de Allende"This is an exciting playing squad and travelling group, and we are looking forward to seeing how the uncapped players step up at top international level and how we execute what we've been working on at training in the last few days and at the alignment camps," said Erasmus.
The Boks added that 30 players will travel to London on Wednesday night, with those outside of the match-day squad being Manie Libbok , RG Snyman , Neethling Fouche , Phepsi Buthelezi , Ethan Hooker , Quan Horn , and Andre-Hugo Venter .
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