RESPECTED LEADER: Siya Kolisi brings gravitas as skipper for Boks in crucial second Test

Siya Kolisi has been cleared to play against the All Blacks in the second Test of the Greatest Rivalry series in Cape Town on Saturday.

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 25 : South Africa’s influential captain Siya Kolisi has recovered from a hamstring injury and will be fit to face New Zealand in the second test of the "Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry" tour in Cape Town on Saturday, coach Rassie Erasmus confirmed on Tuesday. Erasmus named Kolisi in his starting XV on Monday

Kolisi’s participation in the game in Cape Town had been in doubt

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