Pumas sweating over injured star
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The Pumas are sweating over the fitness of centre Shaun Venter, ahead of their Currie Cup encounter with the table-topping Sharks on Friday.
Venter, who was injured in the 27-26 win over the Leopards last week, has been bracketed with Tiaan Marx at outside centre for the Witbank encounter.
The starting XV - if Venter is passed fit, will show just one change from last week - Johan Jackson coming in at fullback for Nicky Kritzinger.
There are two changes to the bench - Siviwe Magaba and Sphiwe Sithole providing backline cover.
Pumas: 15 Johan Jackson, 14 Braam Pretorius, 13 Tiaan Marx/Shaun Venter, 12 Ashwin Scott, 11 Allister Kettledas, 10 Elgar Watts, 9 Tian Meyer, 8 Christo le Roux, 7 Torsten van Jaarsveld, 6 Corné Steenkamp, 5 Marius Coetzer, 4 Andries Kruger, 3 Ashley Buys, 2 Hannes Franklin (captain), 1 Ronnie Uys.
Replacements: 16 De-Jay Terblanche, 17 Dawie Steyn, 18 Willem
Serfontein, 19 Jaco Bouwer, 20 Ricardo Croy, 21 Siviwe Magaba, 22 Sphiwe Sithole.
Date: Friday, September 10
Venue: Puma Stadium, Witbank
Kick-off: 19.10 (17.10 GMT)
Referee: Lourens van der Merwe
Assistant referees: Matt Kemp, Stefan Breytenbach
TMO: Johann Meuwesen


