Minute-by-minute report: The Springboks continue their World Cup preparations at the Millennium Stadium. Join Lee Calvert
Gatland has been forced to make number of changes following the game at Twickenham and subsequently since naming the squad as precautions abound regarding the physical state of the squad. Alex Cuthbert, Liam Williams and Dan Biggar are among the later withdrawals, bringing in Cai Evans, Tom Rogers and Sam Costelow. In the pack, the Domachowki/Assiratti prop axis are back in for a sterner test after a decent outing vs England in week one.
The huge news for South Africa is the return of talisman and captain, Siya Kolisi, a few short months after his cruciate injury. There’s also Munster’s Jean Kleyn in Bok colours following his switch back to the nation of his birth after five Ireland caps.15. Cai Evans, 14. Tom Rogers, 13. Mason Grady, 12. Johnny Williams, 11. Rio Dyer, 10. Sam Costelow, 9. Kieran Hardy, 1. Corey Domachowski, 2. Elliot Dee, 3. Keiron Assiratti, 4. Ben Carter, 5. Will Rowlands, 6. Dan Lydiate, 7. Jac Morgan , 8.
You could say that it’s easy to defy expectations when the level of expectation is somewhere between 0 and 0.22; but Warren Gatland’s Wales have done it nonetheless. Heading into these August matches, the Kiwi and his band were torn to ribbons by retirements and rumours of acrimonious and factional camps, like some 1990s Dutch football team cosplay.
Jacques Nienaber may have raised a few eyebrows with his decision to leave humanoid adding machine Handré Pollard out of his World Cup squad, but what remains are still 23 formidable names for Wales to contend with.
This, and other questions – like is Cai Evans really an international fullback? – will be have something resembling and answer in a few hours.
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