Venue: Newland Stadium, Cape Town
Date: 8 August, 2009
Time: 15:00 GMT, 01:00 AEST, 11:00 RDT
The Wallabies have named an unchanged starting team to face the Springboks in Cape Town on Saturday.
The only change is that Phil Waugh is dropped for Peter Hynes who comes on to the bench.
Hynes replaces New South Wales flanker Phil Waugh in a straight swap on the bench in order to make a more conventional split among the run on reserves.
The team is otherwise unchanged to the team that lost 16-22 to the All Blacks in Australia’s opening match of the TriNations.
While the Wallabies have not won at Cape Town since 1992, the squad does feature 13 of the players who participated in last year’s 27-15 win over South Africa at Durban.
That success was Australia’s first on South African soil for eight years, and just the second win achieved by the Wallabies in the Republic from 14 attempts since the TriNations kicked off in 1996.
South Africa aim for a home clean-sweep when they tackle Australia in the TriNations on Saturday having comfortably disposed of the All Blacks with back-to-back wins.
But the world champions know that Robbie Deans' side, with fly-half Matt Giteau in prime form, will pose more challenges than New Zealand.
South Africa have leapt to the top of the TriNations table after recording successive wins against the All Blacks, while Australia will go into the game having last played three weeks ago.
Australia team:
15,Adam Ashley,Cooper, 14,Lachie Turner, 13,Stirling Mortlock (captain), 12,Berrick Barnes, 11,Drew Mitchell, 10,Matt Giteau, 9,Luke Burgess, 8,Wycliff Palu, 7,George Smith, 6,Richard Brown, 5,Nathan Sharpe, 4,James Horwill, 3,Al Baxter, 2,Stephen Moore, 1,Benn Robinson
Replacements: 16,Tatafu Polota,Nau, 17,Ben Alexander, 18,Dean Mumm, 19,David Pocock, 20,Will Genia, 21,Peter Hynes, 22,James O'Connor
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