The Boks made 14 changes to their starting XV and six players will be on debut in the Test.

The legendary Welsh scrumhalf and captain Gareth Edwards criticised the move by Jacques Nienaber and called it disrespectful. Edwards also called on the Welsh to give South Africa a real ‘tonking’.

Biggar feels that this Boks side may indeed be the more in-form and match ready team.

“What you've got in the South African back division are very decent players in their own right. They weren't just handpicked and chucked into the game.

“When you put a lot of good players together, under a very good coaching staff that SA has, they're going to be organised and switched on.

“They're also in-form players, so I don't see the fact that they haven't played together much, will be an issue.

“It'll all start up front and, if we can put them on the backfoot from a half-back perspective, we'll be at a slight advantage.

“If we don't, we'll be bulldozed a bit and we'll give them a bit of an easy day, and the continuity issue won't be a problem with the kind of players they have.”

Saturday’s Test at the Toyota Stadium kicks off at 17:05.

Springboks - 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Andre Esterhuizen, 11 Aphelele Fassi, 10 Handré Pollard (captain), 9 Jaden Hendrikse, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Trevor Nyakane, 2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Thomas du Toit

Replacements - 16 Malcolm Marx, 17 Ntuthuko Mchunu, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 Ruan Nortje, 20 Rynhardt Elstadt, 21 Deon Fourie, 22 Grant Williams, 23 Damian Willemse

Wales - 15 Liam Williams, 14 Louis Rees-Zammit, 13 George North, 12 Nick Tompkins, 11 Alex Cuthbert, 10 Dan Biggar (captain), 9 Kieran Hardy, 8 Taulupe Faletau, 7 Tommy Reffell, 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Adam Beard, 4 Will Rowlands, 3 Dillon Lewis, 2 Ryan Elias, 1 Gareth Thomas

Replacements - 16 Dewi Lake, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Sam Wainwright, 19 Alun Wyn Jones, 20 Josh Navidi, 21 Tomos Williams, 22 Gareth Anscombe, 23 Josh Adams

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