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  Australia takes on the New Look Springbox in one-off rugby test in
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  Perth. This article is being read by an automated voice generated by
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  Everlett. Perth, Australia the AP. After a huge three one rugby
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  series win over New Zealand in the so called Greatest Rivalry, South
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  Africa plays Australia on Sunday in what should be the friendly confines
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  of Perth Stadium in Western Australia. Expatriate South Africans in the Western
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  Australia state capital have always showed up in droves at previous matches
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  by their national team, and Sunday will likely be no different. What
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  will be different is the Springboks starting side from their win over
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  New Zealand in the final match of the series. Thirteen changes. Only
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  Locke, Eben Edzibeth, and winger Ethan Hooker retained their starting roles from
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  the team that beat the All Blacks forty three twenty eight at
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  Baltimore to seal the three one series win in the inaugural rugby's
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  greatest rivalry. Etzabeth will extend his record as the most capped Springbok
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  of all time to one hundred and forty seven Test matches. Props
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  Jan Hendrik Wessels and Zachary Porthon will rejoin force with hooker Johann
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  Grabelar in a new look front row, while two time World Cup
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  winning fly half Hendre Pollard returns from a calf injury to form
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  a new halves pairing with fit against scrum half Herschel Jangis. Center
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  Andre Esterhusen has been named skipper, making him South Africa's sixty eighth
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  captain. For Australia, Joseph Akuso Suali has a new win role as
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  the Wallabies brace for an aerial barrage in Sunday's match. Suali has
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  spent the bulk of his T four tests at outside center, but
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  will slot in at left wing against South Africa, with Tom Wright
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  to continue at fullback and Max Jorgensen on the right wing. The
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  World No Springboks dominated The aerial game during their wins over New
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  Zealand, and Swali's shift out wide is a significant strategy to cope
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  with the high ball. Western Force hooker Brandon Panga Amoza and prop
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  Alan Alalatoa returned to the starting lineup, but the rest of the
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  forward pack remains unchanged from the team that drew twenty eight twenty
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  eight with Argentina in Mendoza earlier this month. The Wallabies have posted
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  three wins and a draw under new Australia coach Les Kiss, but
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  defending World Cup champion South Africa will be their biggest test. We've
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  had a solid preparation window here in Perth, ahead of what's going
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  to be a massive test against South Africa, Kiss said. Playing against
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  the number one team in the world focuses the mind, and we
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  have worked hard on key areas to meet this challenge and continue
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  to grow our game. Teams. Australia, Tom Wright, Max Jorgensen, Len Ikatao,
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  Hunter Paysami, Joseph Okusasueli, Ben Donaldson, Ryan Lonergan, Harry Wilson, Captain, Fraser
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  McCraight, Rob Vallatini, Jeremy Williams, Josh Cannum, Alan Alalatoa, Brandon Panga Amosa,
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  Angus Bell, Reserves, Billy Pollard, Aidan Ross, Tani Latupu, Lucan Salakaya Lodo,
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  Tom Hooper, Carlo Tizano, Tate McDermott, Harry Potter. South Africa, Aphilela Fassi,
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  Edwin Vander Merway, Canan Moody, Andre Etterhusen, Captain, Ethan Hooker, Handra Pollard,
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  Herschel Janches, Marco Van Staden, Elri Lou, Paul de Villiers, Franco Mostert,
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  Ibn Etzabeth, Zachary Porthin, Johann Grobalar, John Hendrick Wessels, Reserves, Malcolm Marks,
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  Oxenchi, Wilko Lu, Lude de Jager, Jasper Visi, Morn Vandenberg, Sasha Feinberg,
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  Mingamazulu, Quan Horn. See the AP's full rugby coverage here.