JP Pietersen's return to Springboks starting XV the only change for their RWC 2015 play-offs clash at Twickenham on Saturday

LONDON, 14 Oct - South Africa's Bryan Habana will have a chance to become the Rugby World Cup's all-time leading try scorer when he makes his fifth start of RWC 2015 in his team's quarterfinal against Wales.

Habana is the joint top scorer at RWC 2015 with Julian Savea (NZL) on five, but is also level with the all-time record of 15 with Jonah Lomu (NZL). Habana is one of four players, with Tendai Mtawarira, Francois Louw and Schalk Burger, who will start their fifth matches at RWC 2015.

Burger will set a South Africa record for RWC appearances with his 18th match, to move one ahead of RWC 2007 captain John Smit.

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Habana switches back to the number 11 shirt to accommodate the one change to the team that produced the biggest win of the tournament so far with a 64-0 victory over the USA. JP Pietersen (pictured), himself on eight RWC tries, is back on the right wing after sitting out the USA victory with injury.

The team has an average age of 27 years 210 days, the second youngest South Africa RWC XV since the final of RWC 2007, with only the line-up in the big USA win younger, by seven days. Pietersen's inclusion pushes the team's total number of caps up to 686, leaving the team against the USA as the least experienced in terms of caps at this RWC.

Pietersen is one of four players, with Habana, Fourie du Preez and Schalk Burger, who started South Africa's last RWC quarterfinal in 2011, when they lost 11-9 to Australia in Wellington. Patrick Lambie and Jannie du Plessis also started that night, but are on the bench this weekend. Bismarck du Plessis and Louw played off the bench against Australia in 2011, but are in the starting line-up against Wales.

South Africa also played Wales at RWC 2011, beating them 17-16 in the pool stage, and eight of those players are involved in the matchday 23 now, but none of their points scorers from that match.​

South Africa

1. Tendai Mtawarira

2. Bismarck du Plessis

3. Frans Malherbe

4. Eben Etzebeth

5. Lood de Jager

6. Francois Louw

7. Schalk Burger

8. Duane Vermeulen

9. Fourie du Preez (captain)

10. Handré Pollard

11. Bryan Habana

12. Damian De Allende

13. Jesse Kriel

14. JP Pietersen

15. Willie le Roux

Replacements:

16. Adriaan Strauss

17. Trevor Nyakane

18. Jannie du Plessis

19. Pieter-Steph du Toit

20. Willem Alberts

21. Ruan Pienaar

22. Pat Lambie

23. Jan Serfontein

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