Erasmus details timeline for Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu's Bok return

Springboks head coach Rassie Erasmus has provided an update on the timeline for Sacha Fienberg-Mngomezulu’s Springbok return, which is looking promising ahead of the Greatest Rivalry Tour.

South Africa’s last Nations Championship fixture of the July period against Wales will see a number of Boks return to play, but Erasmus highlighted the August 8 Test against Argentina for his flyhalf’s return.

That would give Fienberg-Mngomezulu one Test match to prove his fitness before the All Blacks arrive for the Greatest Rivalry Tour, with the first Test scheduled August 22.

“When you walk out today and you see Ox Nché, Malcolm Marx, Eben, Siya, Lood de Jager, ‘Sous’ [Franco Mostert], Cobus Reinach in the stands, and you think about Sacha, Manie Libbok, Damian de Allende, Cheslin Kolbe, Kurt-Lee Arendse and Canan Moodie, you see a lot of guys who are coming back,” he said.

“Next week will probably be some guys returning to fitness.

“ To get Ethan Hooker through another couple of minutes, maybe give Jesse Kriel a rest, we’ll see.Canan might be at full fitness and we’ll switch him to 13.

“We’ll probably get Sacha into the group next week, because he might be ready for Argentina.

“‘Krappie’ [Van den Berg] is really close to full fitness. I think a guy like Siya and Lood, hopefully, will be ready.

“It’ll be a combination of some guys coming back from injury and making sure we have more caps than our opposition, because today we were totally outnumbered in experience.”

The original prognosis for South Africa’s star flyhalf was 3-4 months when he suffered a high ankle sprain during the Stormers quarter-final back in late May.