Blue Bulls coach John Mitchell has named an unchanged run-on XV ahead of their semi-final against the Sharks at Kings Park on Saturday.

Mitchell has kept faith in the team that beat the Pumas 52-32 at Loftus last weekend.

However, lock Aston Fortuin has been bracketed with Jannes Kirsten, with a call on Fortuin’s availability to be made at a later stage. If he is ruled out, Eli Snyman will be among the replacements.

Prop Lizo Gqoboka has been included on the bench at the expense of Matthys Basson, while wing Duncan Matthews returns from injury.

Blue Bulls – 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 13 Burger Odendaal (c), 12 JT Jackson, 11 Johnny Kotze, 10 Marnitz Boshoff, 9 Ivan van Zyl, 8 Nic de Jager, 7 Tim Agaba, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Aston Fortuin/Jannes Kirsten, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Conraad van Vuuren, 2 Edgar Marutlulle,  1 Pierre Schoeman.
Subs: 16 Johan Grobbelaar, 17 Lizo Gqoboka, 18 Jano Venter, 19 Jannes Kirsten/Eli Snyman, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Tony Jantjies, 22 Duncan Matthews, 23 Jon-Roy Jenkinson.

Currie Cup teams (semi-finals)

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