Veteran lock Eben Etzebeth has been drafted into the Springbok match-day squad for Saturday's Rugby Championship Test against the All Blacks at Ellis Park.
Etzebeth wasn't named in the initial Bok team named on Tuesday due to a knee niggle, but subsequent fitness tests allowed the Boks to bring him in on the bench.
Etzebeth's presence means Marco van Staden, who was initially named on the bench, misses out. This offers the Boks specialist lock cover for the starting combination of Pieter-Steph du Toit and Ruan Nortje.
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Should he get game time, Etzebeth will play his 125th Test which will see him leapfrog Bryan Habana as the second most capped Springbok of all time and take one step closer to Victor Matfield's Springbok Test record of 127 caps.
