Springbok Women’s flank Lamla Momoti was forced to withdraw from the team’s opening Women’s Rugby World Cup clash on Friday against Australia due to a knee injury.
Momoti has been replaced in the starting XV by Rachelle Geldenhuys, who made her Test debut against France in July.
The Test will be hosted at the French Rugby Federation in Marcoussis at 15h45 today.
Momoti suffered a knee injury at training on Thursday and had a late fitness test to give her sufficient time to recover from the injury, but despite this, she did not recover fully and had to be withdrawn from the squad.
Updated Springbok Women’s team to face Australia:
15 – Cindy Cant
14 – Veroeshka Grain
13 – Benele Makwezela
12 – Lorinda Brown
11 – Phumeza Gadu
10 – Zenay Jordaan (vice-captain)
9 – Tayla Kinsey
8 – Mandisa Williams (captain)
7 – Vuyolwethu Vazi
6 – Rachelle Geldenhuys
5 – Cindy Booi
4 – Celeste Adonis
3 – Cebisa Kula
2 – Denita Wentzel
1 – Asithandile Ntoyanto
Replacements:
16 – Thantaswa Macingwana
17 – Nwabisa Ngxatu
18 – Andrea Mentoor
19 – Shona-Leah Weston
20 – Fundiswa Plaatjie
21 – Zandile Nojoko
22 – Siviwe Basweni
