{"id":16294,"date":"2025-11-27T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-reinach-to-earn-50th-test-cap-against-wales\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:30","slug":"springboks-reinach-to-earn-50th-test-cap-against-wales","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-reinach-to-earn-50th-test-cap-against-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Springbok\u2019s Reinach to earn 50th Test cap against Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Springbok scrumhalf Cobus Reinach will earn his 50th Test cap when he takes the field against Wales at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Coach Rassie Erasmus named an experienced 23-player team with 525 caps, in spite of not having all his initial traveling squad available for selection.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">A number of players had to return to their clubs and were not available for selection.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The starting team features eight changes from the team that defeated Ireland 24-13 in Dublin last week.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Three forwards and four backs were retained.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>Erasmus opted for a seven-one split in favour of the forwards on the bench.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16295,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-16294","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A number of players had to return to their clubs and were not available for selection.","published_date":null,"news_description":"A number of players had to return to their clubs and were not available for selection.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20164,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16294\/revisions\/20164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}