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Durban - After their bye this past weekend, the Sharks have been able to welcome back some of their injured players to full fitness while others have dropped out of the match-day 22 for their Super 14 rugby clash against the Highlanders at Absa Stadium this Saturday.
Ruan Pienaar and Jean Deysel have been named to start at flyhalf and blindside flank respectively, with both players having overcome long-term knee injuries.
With Pienaar back at flyhalf, Frans Steyn returns to inside centre where he started the season, but he will have a new face outside of him, that of Riaan Swanepoel who will fill the No 13 jersey in the absence of Adi Jacobs who is out with a shoulder injury.
Waylon Murray is not in the match-day 22 as he is still battling with a troublesome knee injury while there is also an injury cloud over captain Johann Muller who is bracketed with Albert van den Berg.
In other changes, there is rotation in the front row as per usual, with John Smit getting another start at tighthead prop, with Bismarck du Plessis named at hooker and Tendai Mtawarira at loosehead.
The match kicks off at 15:00.
Sharks: Stefan Terblanche; Odwa Ndungane, Riaan Swanepoel, Francois Steyn, JP Pietersen; Ruan Pienaar, Rory Kockott; Ryan Kankowski, Jean Deysel, Jacques Botes, Johann Muller (capt) Albert van den Berg, Steven Sykes, John Smit, Bismarck du Plessis, Tendai Mtawarira.
Substitues -Deon Carstens, Jannie du Plessis, Albert van den Berg/Johan Snyman, Keegan Daniel, Charl McLeod, Monty Dumond, Andries Strauss.
