SA name depleted squad

South Africa will be without 11 members of their World-Cup-winning squad when they tour Britain later this month.

The Springboks take on Wales at the Millennium Stadium on 24 November and play against the Barbarians at Twickenham a week later.

But they will be missing full-back Percy Montgomery, prop BJ Botha and centre Jean de Villiers through injury.

Star winger Bryan Habana, flanker Schalk Burger and captain John Smit have all been named in the squad.

Since the World Cup fly-half Butch James, hooker Gary Botha and winger Ashwin Willemse have joined clubs in England and France and are therefore ruled out of the matches.

While Prop Os du Randt and number eight Bob Skinstad have retired.

It means uncapped duo, prop Wian du Preez and number eight Ryan Kankowski, and twice-capped flanker Hilton Lobberts come into the squad.

The trio were called up after loose forwards Danie Rossouw (neck) and Wikus van Heerden (neck) and prop Gurthro Steenkamp (hand) pulled out of the squad on Monday.

Revised South Africa squad: John Smit (captain), Bakkies Botha, Schalk Burger, Bismarck du Plessis, Jannie du Plessis, Fourie du Preez, Wian du Preez, Jaque Fourie, Bryan Habana, Conrad Jantjes, Ricky Januarie, Wayne Julies, Ryan Kankowski, Hilton Lobberts, Matfield, Johann Muller, Akona Ndungane, Wynand Olivier, Ruan Pienaar, JP Pietersen, Andr Pretorius, Juan Smith, Francois Steyn, Albert van den Berg, CJ van der Linde, Heinke van der Merwe.

Source: BBC Sport