“There are plenty of surprises — it’s a team South Africa wouldn’t have expected.”
So reckoned a contact when asked before the squad announcement what Wayne Pivac’s Wales selection looked like for the series opener against the Springboks. The source wasn’t wrong.
Few would have predicted the side Wales’ head coach has chosen to run with for Saturday’s encounter at Loftus Versfeld Stadium, and it would be wrong to suggest the mood was one of unbridled optimism from a Welsh perspective after news of the selection started circulating. The side shows eight changes from the team which started against Italy in the Six Nations.
