JONTY Rhodes on Thursday failed a fitness test and has lost his place in the South African side to face England in the fifth Test at Centurion Park on Friday.
Rhodes will be replaced by Border’s Pieter Strydom, and Strydom’s inclusion is the the only change to the side which won the fourth Test, and the series, at Newlands.
Eastern Province speedster Mornantau Hayward has been released from the squad and will return to his provincial side for a SuperSport Series game against Easterns at the weekend.
The team :
Gary Kirsten, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Daryll Cullinan, Hansie Cronje (capt), Pieter Strydom, Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock, Mark Boucher, Allan Donald, Paul Adams.