IN 2011, the Springboks took players who had not quite recovered from injury — such as Bakkies Botha, Fourie du Preez and Jannie du Plessis — to the World Cup in New Zealand, much to their peril.In that tournament Botha was unavailable for the opener against Wales and was soon forced to return home after aggravating his Achilles injury, having played only against Fiji and Namibia.That risk, team doctor Craig Roberts assured, would not be taken this year.Sharks lock Pieter-Steph du Toit is recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein earlier in the Super Rugby competition.He will be given ample time to recover from the knee injury. But he will only be in line to be selected if he has recovered sufficiently and has had game time by the time the 31-man World Cup squad is announced at the end of August.However, fellow second-rower Lood de Jager, who broke his elbow in the Cheetahs’ first game looks set to get some match time before S...
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