South Africa's team for the Tri-Nations opener against Australia on

Saturday has been further weakened by the withdrawal of lock

Johann Muller on

Thursday.

The 23-test forward is suffering from a hamstring injury and will be

replaced by Alistair Hargreaves, who has played twice for his

country. Ryan

Kankowski replaces Hargreaves on the bench.

The Springboks left 21 frontline players back in South Africa

because of injury and will give debuts to three players withanother

uncapped player on the

bench.

Revised team: 15-Gio Aplon; 14-Bjorn Basson, 13-Juan de Jongh,

12-Wynand Olivier, 11-Lwazi Mvovo, 10-Morne Steyn, 9-Ruan

Pienaar, 8-Ashley

Johnson, 7-Danie Rossouw, 6-Deon Stegmann, 5-Alistair

Hargreaves, 4-Flip van der Merwe, 3-Werner Kruger, 2-John Smit,

1-Dean Greyling.

Replacements: 16-Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17-CJ van der Linde, 18-

Ryan Kankowski, 19-Jean Deysel, 20-Charl McLeod, 21-Adrian

Jacobs, 22-Patrick

Lambie.