Bloemfontein – Powerful twins, Jesse and Dan Kriel, will play alongside each other and patrol the midfield, for the Junior Springboks against New Zealand Under-20 this morning at the IRB Junior World Championship.
The brothers were confirmed as centre combination when Junior Boks coach, Dawie Theron, named his starting line-up team to face the Baby Blacks in this vital Pool C match of the JWC.
Injury to four players has forced Theron to reshuffle his match 23 after the Junior Boks scored a convincing 61-5 win over Scotland on Monday.
Captain, Handré Pollard feels the match against the hosts could go down to the wire.
This mornings’ match at the QBE Stadium in Albany kicks off at 9:35.
South Africa U20 – 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Lloyd Greeff, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Dan Kriel, 11 Sergeal Petersen, 10 Handré Pollard (captain ), 9 JP Smith, 8 Aidon Davis, 7 Cyle Brink, 6 Jean-Luc du Preez, 5 Nico Janse van Rensburg, 4 JD Schickerling, 3 Dayan van der Westhuizen, 2 Corniel Els, 1 Thomas du Toit.
Replacements – 16 Joseph Dweba (Free State),17 Pierre Schoeman, 18 Wilco Louw, 19 Abongile Nonkontwana, 20 Victor Sekekete, 21 Zee Mkhabela (Free State), 22 Jean-Luc du Plessis, 23 Duhan van der Merwe.
