The Cape City Sevens is again, and it’s set to be one other festive event on the DHL Stadium because the Blitzboks hunt for victory in entrance of their passionate house followers.
A brand new format shall be utilised in Cape City, and so there shall be no room for error as every crew will play solely two pool matches on Saturday, with the 4 pool winners progressing on to the semi-finals.
In distinction to the standard format, the place the highest two groups in every pool advance to the quarter-finals, the format change locations a premium on each pool match as groups that lose shall be unlikely to advance to the Cup playoffs on Sunday.
Blitzboks Pool C fixtures (Saturday):
11:44: Eire
18.41: Argentina
In crew information, Mfundo Ndhlovu makes a welcome return to the Springbok Sevens squad in Cape City this weekend, whereas the uncapped Zander Reynders has additionally cracked the nod.
Their inclusion is the one change from the squad that performed within the season opener in Dubai final weekend, the place each Ryan Oosthuizen and Christie Grobbelaar picked up accidents which dominated them out of the house leg of the world sequence.
The Blitzboks squad for Cape City Sevens:
#3 Impi Visser (co-captain)– 40 tournaments, 205 factors (41 tries)
#4 Zain Davids (co-captain) – 48 tournaments, 210 factors (42 tries)
#5 Ricardo Duarttee – 13 tournaments, 221 factors (16 tries, 69 conversions, 1 penalty aim)
#9 Shaun Williams – 18 tournaments, 157 factors (25 tries, 16 conversions)
#10 Dewald Human – 26 tournaments, 291 factors (25 tries, 83 conversions)
#11 Siviwe Soyizwapi – 54 tournaments, 780 factors (152 tries)
#12 Shilton van Wyk – 21 tournaments, 185 factors (37 tries)
#13 Mfundo Ndhlovu – 17 tournaments, 115 factors (23 tries)
#14 Quewin Nortje – 7 tournaments, 105 factors (21 tries)
#15 Donavan Don – 4 tournaments, 35 factors (7 tries)
#19 David Brits – 4 tournaments, 25 factors (5 tries)
#21 Zander Reynders – uncapped
#24 Tristan Leyds – 6 tournaments, 97 factors (13 tries, 16 conversions)
Full set of males’s fixtures on Saturday:
10h38: France v USA
11h00: Australia v Kenya
11h22: Nice Britain v Uruguay
11h44: South Africa v Eire
13h54: New Zealand v USA
14h16: Spain v Kenya
14h38: Fiji v Uruguay
15h00: Argentina v Eire
17h35: New Zealand v France
17h57: Spain v Australia
18h19: Fiji v Nice Britain
18h41: Argentina v South Africa
Girls:
09h00: USA v Fiji
09h22: Eire v Spain
09h44: Japan v China
10h06: Canada v Brazil
12h16: Nice Britian v Fiji
12h38: France v Spain
13h00: New Zealand v China
13h22: Australia v Brazil
15h42: Nice Britain v USA
16h04: France v Eire
16h26: New Zealand v Japan
16h48: Australia v Canada
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