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Elton, Zane 'luckiest' Boks

Cape Town - Sport24 readers have named Stormers flyhalf Elton Jantjies and Bulls fullback Zane Kirchner as the "luckiest" players to have made the first Springbok training camp of the year.

Visit the Sport24 homepage to vote for the unluckiest player to have missed out on selection

According to our Sport24 poll of over 8 000 votes, our readers believed that Jantjies and Kirchner were the two players that most needed to up their games if they want to retain their places in the Springbok team.

In the poll, Sport24 took the names of the top seven most criticised selections by readers, and asked: Of the players mentioned below, who was the luckiest to make Heyneke Meyer's first Springbok squad of the year?

These were the results:

37% - Zane Kirchner
37% - Elton Jantjies
7% - Pierre Spies
7% - Frans Malherbe
6% - Jano Vermaak
4% - Frans Steyn
3% - Jean de Villiers


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