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Cape Town - The Sunwolves have made a few rotations to their side to play the Bulls in a Super Rugby clash in Pretoria this weekend.
In the forward pack, Hitoshi Ono will start ahead of Fa’atiga Lemalu at lock, while at loose head prop Keita Inagaki replaces Masataka Mikami.
In the backline, Sunwolves coach Mark Hammett has rotated Yuki Yatomi and Kaito Shigeno as the former will start in the No 9 jersey.
Harumichi Tatekawa has been named as skipper once again.
Kick-off for Saturday’s match at Loftus Versfeld is scheduled for 17:05.
Teams:
Bulls
15 Jesse Kriel, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 13 Burger Odendaal, 12 Dries Swanepoel, 11 Jamba Ulengo, 10 Francois Brummer, 9 Piet van Zyl, 8 Renaldo Bothma, 7 Jannes Kirsten, 6 Lappies Labuschagne, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Jason Jenkins, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Pierre Schoeman.
Substitutes: 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 Nqoba Mxoli, 18 Marcel van der Merwe, 19 Hanro Liebenberg, 20 Grant Hattingh, 21 Arno Botha, 22 Rudy Paige, 23 Tian Schoeman
Sunwolves
15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Hajime Yamashita, 13 Derek Carpenter, 12 Harumichi Tatekawa (captain),11 Yasutaka Sasakura,10 Yu Tamura, 9 Yuki Yatomi, 8 Edward Quirk, 7 Taiyo Ando, 6 Liaki Moli, 5 Naohiro Kotaki, 4 Hitoshi Ono, 3 Shinnosuke Kakinaga, 2 Takeshi Kizu, 1 Keita Inagaki
Substitutes: 16 Futoshi Mori, 17 Masataka Mikami, 18 Takuma Asahara, 19 Faatiga Lemalu, 20 Yoshiya Hosoda, 21 Kaito Shigeno, 22 Mifiposeti Paea, 23 Shokei Kin
