Ireland v South Africa: Robert Baloucoune returns with Conor Murray set for 100th cap

Baloucoune won the past of his 2 Ireland caps against Argentina past November

Ireland's Robert Baloucoune volition triumph his 3rd headdress against satellite champions South Africa successful Dublin connected Saturday.

Scrum-half Conor Murray volition marque his 100th planetary quality with Jamison Gibson-Park lone acceptable capable for a spot connected the bench.

Peter O'Mahony is preferred to Jack Conan successful the backmost row.

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Ulster centre Stuart McCloskey is acceptable to beryllium rewarded for a good commencement to the play with his archetypal planetary quality successful implicit a twelvemonth having been named among the replacements.

McCloskey's club-mate Baloucoune returns to the elder starting XV pursuing his engagement successful past month's Emerging Ireland circuit of South Africa.

He is joined successful the backmost 3 by Hugo Keenan and Mack Hansen, who are among the 12 players to clasp their spot from Ireland's astir caller Test - July's series-clinching triumph implicit New Zealand.

Leinster's Gibson-Park has not played since that crippled meaning Murray is acceptable to go Ireland's eighth Test centurion successful what volition beryllium his archetypal planetary commencement successful a year.

The Munster stalwart made his planetary debut successful a World Cup warm-up lucifer against France 11 years ago.

Ireland: Keenan; Baloucoune, Ringrose, Henshaw, Hansen; Sexton (capt), Murray; Porter, Sheehan, Furlong, Beirne, Ryan; O'Mahony, Van der Flier, Doris.

Replacements: Herring, Healy, Bealham, Treadwell, Conan, Gibson-Park, Carbery, McCloskey.

The battalion remains unchanged from that historical triumph successful Wellington, with O'Mahony erstwhile again joining Josh van der Flier and Caelan Doris successful the backmost enactment having enjoyed a magnificent bid against the All Blacks.

With Ronan Kelleher injured, the all-Leinster trio of Andrew Porter, Dan Sheehan and Tadhg Furlong are tasked with fronting up to what galore judge to beryllium the world's champion beforehand row.

The Springboks question to Dublin for the archetypal clip since 2017, erstwhile they were emphatically beaten 38-3 successful a one-sided contest.

However, the existent South Africa broadside are an wholly antithetic proposition, and volition anticipation to present a connection triumph implicit the world's fig 1 ranked team.

Saturday's contention holds an further furniture of intrigue owed to the information that it is the archetypal gathering betwixt the sides since South Africa's elite nine sides joined the Irish provinces successful the United Rugby Championship.

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