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Springboks Make 13 Changes for Perth Test vs Wallabies

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South Africa have made 13 changes to their starting line-up for Sunday's one-off Test against the Wallabies in Perth. Only lock Eben Etzebeth and winger Ethan Hooker retained their starting roles from the team that beat the All Blacks 43-28 in Baltimore to seal a 3-1 win in the inaugural Rugby's Greatest Rivalry series. Etzebeth will extend his record as the most capped Springbok of all time to 147 Test matches.

Props Jan-Hendrik Wessels and Zachary Porthen will join forces with hooker Johan Grobbelaar in a new-look front row, while two-time World Cup-winning fly-half Handre Pollard returns from a calf injury to form a new halves pairing with fit-again scrum-half Herschel Jantjies. Centre Andre Esterhuizen has been named skipper, making him South Africa's 68th captain. Lock Franco Mostert will play his first Test since facing Wales last November.

Despite the mass changes, only three players named in the starting lineup have fewer than 10 Test caps - winger Edwill van der Merwe, lock Paul de Villiers and prop Porthen. Coach Rassie Erasmus said Australia poses a completely different threat to New Zealand. Erasmus had no second thoughts about allowing veteran duo Pieter-Steph du Toit and Damian de Allende to return home to spend time with family. Australia head coach Les Kiss is expected to name his side on Friday.