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🏈The emergence on the rugby scene this year of Kurt-Lee Arendse and Manie Libbok has given the Springboks a boost ahead of their big 2023 season, which includes their defence of the World Cup in France: Springboks RugbyWorldCup2023

Before the match Arendse was already highly regarded, with him having unseated Makazole Mapimpi for the number 11 jersey for the French and Italy games.

With right wing Cheslin Kolbe unavailable for the game against England this coming weekend, which falls outside the Test window, Arendse will be expected to shift back to the position he featured most in earlier in the season, while Mapimpi should return to his left wing berth. This season has seen regular first and second choice flyhalves Handre Pollard and Elton Jantjies largely unavailable due to injury and off the field problems respectively, which has led to Damian Willemse, and even Frans Steyn filling in the position.

Libbok showed exactly what an out and out flyhalf can produce, with a sublime attacking performance, as he pulled the strings in the second half helping the Boks run in a string of tries.

 

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