Tinus de Beer begins at flyhalf in one in all six modifications to Cardiff’s lineup for Saturday’s match towards the Vodacom Bulls at Loftus Versfeld.
The 29-year-old, who will go away the Welsh membership on the finish of the season, types a halfback partnership with one other South African, Johan Mulder.
De Beer started his senior provincial profession on the Bulls, earlier than stints with Griquas and the Pumas.
In modifications to the Cardiff pack, loosehead prop Corey Domachowski and hooker Evan Lloyd come into the entrance row, whereas Rory Thornton companions Josh McNally within the second row.
Within the again row, James Botham switches again to openside flank, with Alex Mann and Alun Lawrence packing down at blindside flank and No 8 respectively.
Cardiff are coming off a confidence-boosting 26-21 residence win towards Munster that propelled them to fifth on the Vodacom URC log.
“It’s nice to enter this last two weeks in South Africa with a lot to play for and we’re decided to cement our place within the URC playoffs,” mentioned coach Matt Sherratt, who has once more opted for a 6-2 cut up on the bench.
“It might be the primary time we’ve got reached the playoffs, which might be an enormous achievement given the journey we’re on and qualification for the Champions Cup is the reward.
“We can be doing every thing potential to remain in that prime eight however we’re nicely conscious of how robust the subsequent two weeks can be.
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“All of it begins on Saturday towards the Bulls, who’re a high quality facet and can be massively motivated to safe a prime seeding. They’ve an enormous, highly effective set piece and pack, as you’d count on, with some actually harmful gamers behind.
“However we’ve got ready nicely, we’re wanting ahead to the problem and expertise of two weeks in South Africa and we is not going to go down questioning.”
CARDIFF – 15 Cam Winnett, 14 Josh Adams, 13 Harri Millard, 12 Ben Thomas (c), 11 Gabe Hamer-Webb, 10 Tinus de Beer, 9 Johan Mulder, 8 Alun Lawrence, 7 James Botham, 6 Alex Mann, 5 Rory Thornton, 4 Josh McNally, 3 Keiron Assiratti, 2 Evan Lloyd, 1 Corey Domachowski.
Bench: 16 Liam Belcher, 17 Danny Southworth, 18 Rhys Litterick, 19 Teddy Williams, 20 Dan Thomas, 21 Taulupe Faletau, 22 Aled Davies, 23 Rory Jennings.
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