Watch every second of the Wallabies 2026 season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nLoosehead prop Ethan de Groot and lock Josh Lord suffered head knocks when they collided trying to halt a charge by Springboks No.8 Jasper Wiese.<\/p>\n
They are ruled out and replaced by prop George Bower, a replacement last weekend, and Tupou Vaa’i, who moves from the back row to lock.<\/p>\n
Vaa’i is replaced in the back row by Simon Parker, who is promoted after coming off the bench at Ellis Park.<\/p>\n
Josh Moorby, a try scorer in the first Test, drops to the bench and is replaced on the wing by Leroy Carter, another replacement used in the first match who is promoted.<\/p>\n
Prop Xavier Numia and lock Patrick Tuipulotu, who captained the All Blacks to two of their four victories against franchise sides, have been added to the bench.<\/p>\n
“While we were happy with the win last week, I think both teams will be better this weekend,” New Zealand head coach Dave Rennie said.<\/p>\n
“We have played four Tests this year and are still growing as a group,” he added, referring to Nations Championship wins over France, Italy and Ireland before touring South Africa.<\/p>\n
“I’m really excited about the competition for places and the performances of the squad across the matches here in South Africa, and we are really looking forward to this weekend.”<\/p>\n
Rennie boasts an excellent record against South Africa. Before the Johannesburg Test triumph, he coached Australia to three victories in four Tests against the Springboks.<\/p>\n
After Cape Town, the series continues in Johannesburg on September 5 and concludes in American city Baltimore seven days later.<\/p>\n
New Zealand (15-1): Damian McKenzie; Will Jordan, Quinn Tupaea, Jordie Barrett, Leroy Carter; Ruben Love, Cam Roigard;\u202f Ardie Savea (capt), \u202fLuke Jacobson, Simon Parker; Tupou Vaa’i, Fabian Holland; Tyrel Lomax, Codie Taylor, George Bower<\/p>\n
Replacements: Asafo Aumua, Xavier Numia, Fletcher Newell, Patrick Tuipulotu, Peter Lakai, Kyle Preston, Anton Lienert-Brown, Josh Moorby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand have made three personnel changes and one positional for the second Test against South Africa in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[10751,64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-870823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-all-blacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870823","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=870823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}