{"id":31493,"date":"2026-06-29T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-v-england-manie-libbok-to-start-at-10-for-springboks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:16:32","slug":"south-africa-v-england-manie-libbok-to-start-at-10-for-springboks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-v-england-manie-libbok-to-start-at-10-for-springboks\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa v England: Manie Libbok to start at 10 for Springboks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While coach Rassie Erasmus has named a more conventional set of replacements, with five specialist forwards rather than the seven he has experimented with in the past, former Harlequins centre Andre Esterhuizen has been deployed as a flanker off the bench in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheslin Kolbe and Damian Willemse will both win their 50th caps as part of the starting line-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;England are a quality outfit, and we are expecting them to give everything they have in this match, so it was important to select a squad with experience combined with a few younger players, who have proved that they have what it takes to perform at this level,&#8221; said Erasmus, whose team beat a Barbarians side 80-31 in a warm-up fixture on 20 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s team announcement is expected towards the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">South Africa:<\/b> Willemse; Kolbe, Kriel, De Allende, Arendse; Libbok, Williams;  Nche, Marx, T du Toit, Etzebeth, Nortje, Kolisi, P-S du Toit, Wiese<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements: <\/i>Wessels, Steenekamp, Porthen, Van Staden, Hanekom, Reinach, Esterhuizen, Moodie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c36y8zye1zpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While coach Rassie Erasmus has named a more conventional set of replacements, with five specialist forwards rather than the seven he has experimented with in the past, former Harlequins centre Andre Esterhuizen has been deployed as a flanker off the bench in the past. Cheslin Kolbe and Damian Willemse will both win their 50th caps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31495,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493\/revisions\/31495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}