{"id":11173,"date":"2012-06-06T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-south-africa-name-three-debutants-for-england-clash\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:57:18","slug":"rugby-south-africa-name-three-debutants-for-england-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-south-africa-name-three-debutants-for-england-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-South Africa name three debutants for England clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Humphries<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, June 6<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer<br \/>\nnamed three debutants on Wednesday in his starting XV for the<br \/>\nfirst test against England in Durban on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Locks Juandre Kruger (26) and Eben Etzebeth (20) and flank<br \/>\nMarcell Coetzee (21) will make their first test appearances<br \/>\nagainst England while replacement prop Coenie Oosthuizen is also<br \/>\nin line for his first test cap.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the newcomers, the Springbok team chosen to play<br \/>\nEngland boast a combined 458 caps. Nine players are retained<br \/>\nfrom South Africa&#8217;s last match, a World Cup quarter-final defeat<br \/>\nto Australia last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kruger and Etzebeth have the huge task of replacing former<br \/>\ncaptain Victor Matfield and his second-row partner Bakkies Botha<br \/>\nbut Meyer said he was confident that they would rise to the<br \/>\nchallenge.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite a new thing for South Africa to have two<br \/>\nuncapped locks starting. It will be a huge step up for them and<br \/>\nthey need to prove that they can play at this level,&#8221; Meyer told<br \/>\na news conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marcell Coetzee has played great rugby the whole year and I<br \/>\nbelieve he will be a superstar in years to come. They have all<br \/>\nproved themselves in Super Rugby and I am confident that all<br \/>\nthree will acquit themselves well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hooker Bismarck du Plessis was named as the team&#8217;s<br \/>\nvice-captain.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that Bismarck is a great leader and I&#8217;m very<br \/>\nhappy with what I&#8217;ve seen with him,&#8221; Meyer said. &#8220;He brings<br \/>\nsomething different to the party.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Humphries DURBAN, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer named three debutants on Wednesday in his starting XV for the first test against England in Durban on Saturday. Locks Juandre Kruger (26) and Eben Etzebeth (20) and flank Marcell Coetzee (21) will make their first test appearances against England while replacement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}