42 Friday Sports Friday, June 8, 2018 All change for Boks against after Wales loss SA Rugby agree that 50 percent of the team should be blacks

JOHANNESBURG: will field a Snyman, who owes his place to injuries ruling completely different team for the first rugby out and . “I am Test against England tomorrow from that especially pleased for the three newcomers, which lost to Wales last weekend if prop Aphiwe, Sibusiso and RG,” said Erasmus. passes a fitness test. “I am looking forward to seeing how they The tighthead prop has a rib injury and a will perform in tough conditions decision on whether he can play in the first against formidable opponents.” Erasmus said match of a three-Test series will be made England, were a very well-drilled team under today, coach said. Should the leadership of Eddie Jones, an assistant Nyakane pull out, the number three shirt will coach of the 2007 South Africa Rugby World go to Wilco Louw, who started in the 22-20 Cup-winning team. loss to the Welsh in Washington. “England are a top-class, quality side and will lead the Spring- they will no doubt be very determined to be boks, the first black to do so after 60 white successful in this series. “With us desperate for captains of a national team that included only success as well, supporters can expect a really whites until the collapse of apartheid. Should good Test match tomorrow,” said Erasmus. Nyakane play, there will be a record- “We have prepared as well as we could equalling seven black starters in the team with and the players are looking forward to playing Erasmus keeping his promise to racially trans- in front of our passionate supporters in Jo- (FILES) In this file photo taken on May 28, 2018, South African flanker Siya Kolisi, the first black Test captain form the team. hannesburg.” Full-back and who will lead South Africa in a three-Test series against England in June. —AFP SA Rugby and the government have scrum-half , both based in Eng- agreed that 50 percent of the team at the land, are recalled after falling out of favour 2019 in should be with previous coach . in will Jean-Luc du Preez, Siya Kolisi (capt); Franco blacks, who comprise 92 percent of the pop- Coetzee was sacked this year after a dis- host the second Test on June 16 and Newlands Mostert, RG Snyman; Trevor Nyakane/Wilco ulation. Wholesale changes were expected as astrous two-season reign in which South stadium in the third on June 23. Louw, , . Erasmus left what proved to be his 15 first Africa lost 12 of 25 Tests and twice conceded Replacements: , choices for England behind when the rest of 57 points against greatest foes New Zealand. Team (15-1) , Wilco Louw/, the squad travelled to the American capital. The match marks the start of a Willie le Roux; Sibusiso Nkosi, Lukhanyo Pieter-Steph du Toit, , There are three new caps-wingers Sibu- sixth attempt by England to win a Test series Am, , ; Han- , , siso Nkosi and Aphiwe Dyantyi and lock RG in South Africa. dre Pollard, Faf de Klerk; , Coach: Rassie Erasmus (RSA). —AFP

valued non-cricketer in Indian sport, bringing him , kabaddi, more money than the national soccer captain Sunil Chhetri, who was retained by Bengaluru FC in the stubborn exception, claiming two tight home kabaddi - pro league Indian Super League for 15 million rupees last sea- Wallabies coach wins in 2014 and 2016. son. “I am extremely happy to be the highest paid “They’re the best team Ireland’s had since a lucrative hit in India player this season,” Goyat said. the start of their rugby history,” Cheika told “There is a huge responsibility to deliver and I fired up to end reporters in yesterday. “They’re MUMBAI: The success of the Indian Premier am glad to receive this opportunity. I will now coming down here as number two in the focus on increasing the standard of my game and world. They can claim they’re underdogs as League cricket tournament has spawned several Ireland hoodoo copycat competitions in other sports but kabaddi playing the best I can.” Revolving around very much as they like but they’re certainly going basic skills, the game is played by two teams of MELBOURNE: Australia coach Michael left them all trailing in its wake with a string of to be the favourites when they go off the back seven with a ‘raider’ entering the other half of the Cheika laid a foundation of success for Irish record bids at last week’s auction of players. of the season they’ve had.” court to try and tag or wrestle opponents before rugby during his stint at Leinster, and eight While cricket maintains a stranglehold on the June has been a forgettable month for Aus- returning ‘home’ while holding his breath and years on, he faces the juggernaut he helped sporting landscape in the country of 1.3 billion, the tralian rugby in recent times, with a shock chanting ‘kabaddi, kabaddi’. create at tomorrow. indigenous mixture of team tag and wrestling has home loss to Scotland last year and a 3-0 The sport, which requires no sophisticated Joe Schmidt holds the reins of the visiting grown in stature since the launch of the Pro whitewash by Eddie Jones’s England in 2016. equipment and is hugely popular in South Asia, Six Nations champions, but Cheika’s influence Kabaddi League in 2014. Bankrolled by Twenty- The leadup to the Ireland series has been was included in the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing runs deep through a squad looking to extend First Century Fox unit Star India and Mashal typically chaotic. for the first time as a regular discipline. Indian men its 12-match winning streak in the southern Sports, which counts India’s Mahindra group Cheika’s preparations were distracted by have won all seven gold medals in the Asian Games hemisphere. Cheika transformed an under- chairman Anand Mahindra among its promoters, a tug-of-war with New Zealand over un- since its introduction and also won the women’s achieving Leinster into European Cup cham- the league has transformed the homegrown sport capped loose forward Pete Samu, who was event in the two Games since it was introduced in pions in 2009, nurturing the likes of Johnny into a high-octane televised spectacle. only belatedly released by the rival nation 2010 in Guangzhou. Sexton, Rob Kearney and Cian Healy before The viewership numbers have grown steadily over the weekend. Local provincial side ACT The money paid for Goyat’s services handing over to New Zealand-born Schmidt with each edition and last season’s final witnessed also refused to rest flanker David was over 60 percent more than the top bid of 9.3 who carried on the Australian’s success. a jump of over 70 percent from the previous title Pocock and two other Wallabies from Super million rupees Nitin Tomar received during the Cheika has since worked his magic on match with 26.2 million tuning in to watch the Rugby duties on Sunday, giving them little auction for the fifth season. Four more Indian play- home shores, guiding the Sydney-based New beat Gujarat Fortunegiants. time to recover ahead of the Ireland series- ers, including Tomar, crossed the ‘10 million’ mark South Wales Waratahs to their maiden Super The league’s popularity - the 10th final of opener. during the auction while Iranian defender Fazel Rugby title in 2014 before lifting an unfancied cricket’s IPL attracted only 13.2m more viewers - Hooker Jordan Uelese was then a late Atrachali was the lone foreigner to touch the mark Wallabies side to the World Cup final in Eng- has also resulted in quite a windfall for the players, scratching after sustaining a season-ending when he was bought by U Mumba. land the following year. who were all amateurs until the PKL started. knee injury, forcing a late call-up for Tolu “Kabaddi has proven to be a viable career op- Virtually all major rugby nations have suf- Monu Goyat ended up fetching 15.1 million ru- Latu. Uncapped rake Brandon Paenga-Amosa tion for emerging talent and with six players cross- fered a loss to Cheika’s Wallabies, including pees ($225,609) at the two-day auction in Mum- will be thrust into a starting role along with ing the (10 million) mark,” league commissioner the world champion All Blacks last year. bai when the 25-year-old raider was bought by loose forward Caleb Timu, while reserve Anupam Goswami said after the 12 franchises Schmidt’s Ireland, however, have proved the Samu could be a third debutant. —Reuters the for the sixth edition - slated to start in October. That made Goyat the highest spent a total of 459.3 million rupees. —Reuters