Springboks World Cup winners in Jones’ Barbarians squad

Eddie Jones will coach a Barbarians side including four of South Africa’s Rugby World Cup winners against Fiji just two weeks after they beat his England side in the Rugby World Cup final.

Makazole Mapimpi, Tendai Mtawarira and Lukhanyo Am were in the Springboks starting line-up for their 32-12 victory over the Red Rose at International Stadium Yokohama on Saturday.

The trio are set to play under Jones at Twickenham on November 16 along with Herschel Jantjies, who was among the replacements as South Africa claimed the Webb Ellis Cup for a record-equalling third time.

Mapimpi scored his sixth try of the tournament in the final and fell just one short of Wales wing Josh Adams’ tournament-leading tally in Japan.

FOUR #RWC2019 World champions will be in our squad as we take on @FijiRugby

The @Springboks stars are:

Tendai Mtawarira
Herschel Jantjies
Lukhanyo Am
Makazole Mapimpi

More names to follow as soon as we can #Baabaas #rugby #rugbyunited pic.twitter.com/B39rz4qNfx

— Barbarian FC (@Barbarian_FC) November 5, 2019

Retiring Ireland captain Rory Best and France centre Mathieu Bastareaud have also been named in the Baa-baas squad for the Killik Cup clash with the Pacific Islanders along

The Barbarians will also face Brazil in Sao Paolo on November 20 and Wales at the Principality Stadium 10 days later.

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