Wales squad selector: Your starting XV to play South Africa
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Dan Biggar has 92 Wales caps and three for the British and Irish Lions
Autumn Nations Series: Wales v South Africa |
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Venue: Principality Stadium, Cardiff Date: Saturday, 6 November Kick-off: 17:30 BST |
Coverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app. Live commentary BBC Radio Cymru, updates on BBC Radio Wales. |
BBC Sport website users had wanted the recall of Dan Biggar to the Wales number 10 jersey against South Africa.
Prior to coach Wayne Pivac's Thursday lunchtime team announcement, he was your outside-half choice in our online poll for Saturday's second Autumn Test.
Biggar was unavailable for the opening out-of-window 54-16 defeat to New Zealand.
Right wing Louis Rees-Zammit received the most votes, chosen in over 95% of your selections.
Both - who are in Pivac's selection too - had been retained by their English club's last weekend along with Callum Sheedy, Nick Tompkins, Christ Tshiunza and Thomas Young - none of whom made your preferred starting XV to face the Springboks.
The only other changes you had wanted to see from the side which was overwhelmed by the All Blacks were influenced by injury.
The majority of our voters had their fingers crossed that full-back Liam Williams, lock Ken Owens and flanker Ellis Jenkins had all regained full fitness to return and start in the Principality Stadium on Saturday evening. Owens has not recovered from a back injury, Williams is on the bench after his recent appendix operation.
Jenkins is included and was also your choice to come into the back row as a replacement for Ross Moriarty, who along with Alun Wyn Jones suffered series-ending shoulder injuries against New Zealand.
To replace record cap-holder Jones in the second row you opted for Dragons lock Will Rowlands - as does Pivac.
In our poll Biggar was the fly-half choice in 60% of almost 13,000 teams submitted by users of the BBC Sport website, ahead of Rhys Priestland (20.4%) who was a second-half replacement last weekend. Sheedy polled just under 13% .
Last week's starter Gareth Anscombe received the backing of under 7% of voters - but is Pivac's choice of back-up on the replacements bench.
Wales' head coach also selected Nick Tompkins in midfield rather than your preference to keep Johnny Williams and up front selected prop Rhys Carre ahead of Wyn Jones.
Despite receiving support from 94% of our voters loosehead Jones is only on the bench for Saturday's game.
You can still pick your XV but your selections won't be counted towards the result - don't forget to share your picks on social media using #bbcrugby.