Springbok captain Siya Kolisi, seen here running with the ball against the All Blacks in Wellington last year, didn't feature in the first Test against the New Zealanders at Ellis Park.
Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus has confirmed that inspirational captain Siya Kolisi is fully fit to start the second Test against the All Blacks at DHL Stadium in Cape Town.
Kolisi was bracketed alongside Paul de Villiers when the squad was named on Monday after missing the series opener at Ellis Park due to a hamstring strain. However, Erasmus put any lingering injury doubts to rest, declaring his skipper completely cleared for action.
“Siya Kolisi, 100 percent he will be starting as captain,” Erasmus confirmed at press conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
“It’s a hamstring, the previous big ones he had in 2019 and 2023 were knees. It’s not a hamstring injury where he ran full pace, it happened at a breakdown where he got cleaned from behind and it overextended.”
