The Springbok team to take on Argentina in Buenos Aires on Saturday shows 13 changes from the one that scraped a win over the Pumas by a point at Ellis Park last week. | Sport24news
Mbonambi, who will earn his 60th Test cap this weekend, takes over the captain's responsibilities in the absence of regular skipper Siya Kolisi, who is making encouraging progress following surgery to his knee, and stand-in captains Eben Etzebeth and Duane Vermeulen, who remained behind in South Africa with a group of players in a conditioning camp.
Nienaber also named a rejigged bench, with utility forward Jean-Luc du Preez and scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies donning the jersey for the first time this season. Wing Kurt-Lee Arendse has been declared fit to play after suffering a finger injury on Saturday and will provide backline cover with Jesse Kriel and Jantjies on a bench featuring a five-three split in favour of the forwards.
"This is going to be a massive physical battle, and there will be a lot of pressure on the players mentally and physically, which is exactly the type of situation we would like to see them in as we enter our World Cup warm-up games." "There is not a player in our enlarged squad who is fully confident that he will be in the World Cup squad, so the competition for places is intense.
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