Le Roux, who became the eighth player in South African rugby history to feature in 100 Tests earlier this season, suffered the niggle at training earlier this week and has not recovered in time to play, prompting Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus to draft Fassi straight into the starting lineup.<\/p>\n
Fassi started last week\u2019s Test against the Wallabies in Johannesburg, where the Springboks went down 38-22, making this his second appearance in a row against the Wallabies.<\/p>\n
Updated Springbok team to face Australia in Cape Town:<\/p>\n
15 Aphelele Fassi\u00a0(Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013 13 caps, 35 points (7t)
14 Canan Moodie (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013 15 caps, 35 pts (7t)
13 Jesse Kriel\u00a0(captain, Canon Eagles) \u2013 81 caps, 95 points (19t)
12 Damian de Allende\u00a0(Wild Knights) \u2013 89 caps, 55 points (11t)
11 Cheslin Kolbe\u00a0(Tokyo Sungoliath) \u2013 41 caps, 111 points (18t, 3c, 5p)
10 Handre Pollard\u00a0(Vodacom Bulls) –\u00a082 caps,\u00a0797 points (7t, 116c, 168p, 5dg)
9 Grant Williams (Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013\u00a020 caps, 25 pts (5t)<\/p>\n
8 Jean-Luc du Preez\u00a0(Bordeaux Begles) \u2013 14 caps 10 points (2t)
7 Franco Mostert\u00a0(Honda Heat) \u2013 80 caps, 20 points (4t)
6 Marco van Staden (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013\u00a028 caps, 15 pts (3t)
5 Ruan Nortje (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013\u00a08 caps, 0 pts
4 RG Snyman (Leinster) \u2013 42 caps, 10 points (2t)
3 Thomas du Toit (Bath) \u2013\u00a025 caps, 5 pts (1t)
2 Malcolm Marx\u00a0(Kubota Spears) \u2013 79 caps, 115 pts (23t)
1 Ox Nche (Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013\u00a042 caps, 0 pts<\/p>\n
Replacements:<\/p>\n
16 Marnus van der Merwe\u00a0(Scarlets) \u2013 1 cap, 10 points (2t)
17 Boan Venter (Edinburgh) \u2013\u00a02 caps, 5 pts (1t)
18 Wilco Louw (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013\u00a019 caps, 0 pts
19 Eben Etzebeth\u00a0(Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013 134 caps, 35 points (7t)
20 Lood de Jager\u00a0(Wild Knights) \u2013 68 caps, 25 points (5t)
21 Kwagga Smith\u00a0(Shizuoka Blue Revs) \u2013 54 caps, 45 points (9t)\u00a0
22 Cobus Reinach (DHL Stormers) \u2013\u00a041 caps, 70 pts (14t)\u00a0
23 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu (DHL Stormers) – 10 caps, 54 points (15c, 8p)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le Roux, who became the eighth player in South African rugby history to feature in 100 Tests earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-86882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}