Lions leave Bok flyhalf at home
The Lions kick off their campaign in a historic match against Japanese newcomers the Sunwolves in Tokyo on Saturday, February 27.
This is followed by matches against the two-time champion Chiefs (March 5, Hamilton) and defending champion Highlanders (March 12, Dunedin).
Lions coach Johan Ackermann has opted for fellow Bok Elton Jantjies and young Jaco van der Walt as his flyhalves, while Boshoff – who came off the bench against Scotland in June 2014 in his only Test appearance – will drop down to the Currie Cup squad with the nine other Super Rugby squad members who did not make the tour cut.
Another interesting selection is in the second row, where only two specialist locks were named – Franco Mostert and Andries Ferreira.
Young Lourens Erasmus, a star alongside Mostert in the Lions' Currie Cup-winning campaign last year, has been left at home.
Like Boshoff, the 22-year-old Erasmus will keep in shape with the Currie Cup team.
It appears he may well use his vast array of talented loose forwards as back-up in the second row – the likes of Ruan Ackermann, Fabian Booysen and Robert Kruger.
Other loose forwards in the tour squad are Jaco Kriel, Warwick Tecklenburg and captain Warren Whiteley.
Other than that Ackermann snr, the coach, produced no major surprises.
The team departs for Japan on Tuesday 23 February.
* Meanwhile Golden Lions Rugby Union CEO Rudolf Straeuli said that no player who missed the cut for Super Rugby will be released to another union.
They will all train and prepare with the Currie Cup side.
Lions tour squad: Ruan Ackermann, Fabian Booysen, Andries Coetzee, Robbie Coetzee, Ruan Combrinck, Francois de Klerk, Ruan Dreyer, Andries Ferreira, Corne Fourie, Rohan Janse v Rensburg, Elton Jantjies, Jaco Kriel, Robert Kruger, Lionel Mapoe, Malcolm Marx, Howard Mnisi, Franco Mostert, Julian Redelinghuys, Courtnall Skosan, Dillon Smit, Dylan Smith, Warwick Tecklenburg, Armand van der Merwe, Jaco van der Walt, Jacques van Rooyen, Harold Vorster, Warren Whiteley.
