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Andries Strauss is back at inside centre and captain for the Southern Kings Super Rugby clash against the Hurricanes in Wellington on Saturday.
Hadleigh Parkes drops to the bench.
The team has just been named with Steven Sykes also returning from injury at lock - and as vice captain.
Devin Oosthuizen gets his first Super Rugby start in the number 6 flanker jersey in place of Cornell du Preez.
Hannes Franklin has been out for several months with injury but is back on the bench as reserve hooker to Bandise Maku.
NO. POSITION NAME
1 LOOSEHEAD PROP Schalk Ferreira
2 HOOKER Bandise Maku
3 TIGHTHEAD PROP Kevin Buys
4 LEFT LOCK Steven Sykes (VC)
5 RIGHT LOCK David Bulbring
6 LEFT FLANKER Devin Oosthuizen
7 RIGHT FLANKER Wimpie van der Walt
8 NUMBER EIGHT Jacques Engelbrecht
9 SCRUMHALF Shaun Venter
10 FLYHALF Demetri Catrakilis
11 LEFT WING Marcello Sampson
12 INSIDE CENTRE Andries Strauss (C)
13 OUTSIDE CENTRE Ronnie Cooke
14 RIGHT WING Sergeal Petersen
15 FULLBACK George Whitehead
REPLACEMENTS:
In order from Hooker to Full Back -
16. RESERVE Hannes Franklin
17. RESERVE Grant Kemp
18. RESERVE Rynier Bernardo
19. RESERVE Daniel Adongo
20. RESERVE Nicolas Vergallo
21. RESERVE Waylon Murray
22. RESERVE Hadleigh Parkes
