Category: Internationals

The Springbok team to take on England has been named.

– Pat Cilliers replaces CJ van der Linde on the bench.
РElton Jantjies replaces Morn̩ Steyn on the bench.

Heyneke Meyer: ‘It’s great to be able to field an unchanged team. We’ve been able to show some consistency in selection on this tour and that is a good thing. The players have worked extremely hard on the training field and it wasn’t easy to select the match 23 for each of the three Tests, but I’m happy that we managed to stick to combinations.’

Springbok team

15. Zane Kirchner (Blue Bulls)
14. JP Pietersen (Sharks)
13. Juan de Jongh
12. Jean de Villiers (captain, Stormers)
11. Francois Hougaard (Blue Bulls)
10. Patrick Lambie (Sharks)
09. Ruan Pienaar (Ulster, N Ireland)
08. Duane Vermeulen (Stormers)
07. Willem Alberts (Sharks)
06. Francois Louw (Bath)
05. Juandre Kruger (Blue Bulls)
04. Eben Etzebeth (Stormers)
03. Jannie du Plessis (Sharks)
02. Adriaan Strauss (vice-captain, FS Cheetahs)
01. Gurthrö Steenkamp (Toulouse)

Replacements

16. Schalk Brits
17. Heinke van der Merwe
18. Pat Cilliers
19. Flip van der Merwe
20. Marcell Coetzee
21. Elton Jantjies
22. Jaco Taute
23. Lwazi Mvovo

England 15 Alex Goode, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Brad Barritt, 11 Mike Brown, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Ben Morgan, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 Tom Wood, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Alex Corbisiero.
Replacements: 16 David Paice, 17 David Wilson, 18 Mako Vunipola, 19 Mouritz Botha, 20 James Haskell, 21 Danny Care, 22 Owen Farrell, 23 Jonathan Joseph.