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.