Jan-Hendrik Wessels has been ruled out of the Springboks’ Rugby Championship match against the Wallabies at Ellis Park on Saturday.

The back-up front-rower suffered a niggle at training on Wednesday.

He is replaced on the bench with Boan Venter, who made his Test debut against Georgia in Nelspruit.

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SPRINGBOKS – 15 Aphelele Fassi, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 André Esterhuizen, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Siya Kolisi (c), 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Lood de Jager, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Ox Nche.
Bench: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Boan Venter , 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19 Franco Mostert, 20 Kwagga Smith, 21 Cobus Reinach, 22 Canan Moodie, 23 Damian Willemse.

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