South Africa team to play Australia in Rugby Championship

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer named the following team on Wednesday to play Australia in a Rugby Championship test in Cape Town on Saturday.

South Africa team to play Australia in Rugby Championship

(Reuters)





South Africa: 15-Willie le Roux; 14-Cornal Hendricks, 13-Jan Serfontein, 12-Jean de Villiers (captain), 11-Bryan Habana, 10-Handre Pollard, 9-Francois Hougaard, 8-Duane Vermeulen, 7-Teboho Mohoje, 6-Marcell Coetzee, 5-Victor Matfield, 4-Eben Etzebeth, 3-Jannie du Plessis, 2-Adriaan Strauss, 1-Tendai Mtawarira.

Replacements: 16-Bismarck du Plessis, 17-Trevor Nyakane, 18-Marcel van der Merwe, 19-Bakkies Botha, 20-Schalk Burger, 21-Cobus Reinach, 22-Pat Lambie, 23-JP Pietersen.





(Compiled by Nick Said; editing by Amlan Chakraborty)


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