Springboks Franco Mostert and Jesse Kriel will earn their 50th Test caps when South Africa line up against Scotland in Edinburgh on Saturday.
Coach Jacques Nienaber made just two rotational switches and one injury-enforced change to the starting fifteen that defeated Wales 23-18.
Mostert comes in at lock and Elton Jantjies will start at flyhalf, with Lood de Jager and Handré Pollard moving to the replacements bench.
Willie le Roux was named at fullback, taking over from Damian Willemse, who has to follow concussion return to play protocols. The match will also be a memorable one for Frans Steyn, who will edge Victor Matfield as the player with the longest Springbok career.
He’ll become the first South African to play Test rugby for over 15 calendar years, should he take to the field.
Team effort
Mostert believes a team effort will be needed against Scotland.
“We can sharpen up on everything, it wasn’t a perfect game for us but I think we fought it out and we have to stick to our game plan and not fall in a trap or something like that. Finn Russell is a good player and we don’t look at one player, we are looking at the whole team and the performance they did on the weekend, they did play some running rugby and stuff like that and I think with our defence, we are more suited with that and hopefully it is going to take a team effort to back it up.”
The last time Scotland beat the Springboks was back in 2010 on the end-of-year tour at Murrayfield.
