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Sunwolves change for Bulls

Harumichi Tatekawa has been named as captain again.

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Hammett made a number of changes for the trip to Loftus Versfeld.

Hitoshi Ono will start ahead of Fa'atiga Lemalu at lock, while at loosehead prop Keita Inagaki replaces Masataka Mikami in the No.1 jersey.

In the backline Hammett rotated Yuki Yatomi and Kaito Shigeno at scrumhalf, with the former starting in the No 9 jersey.

Sunwolves: 15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Hajime Yamashita, 13 Derek Carpenter, 12 Harumichi Tatekawa (captain),11 Yasutaka Sasakura,10 Yu Tamura, 9 Yuki Yatomi, 8 Edward Quirk, 7 Taiyo Ando, 6 Liaki Moli, 5 Naohiro Kotaki, 4 Hitoshi Ono, 3 Shinnosuke Kakinaga, 2 Takeshi Kizu, 1 Keita Inagaki.

Replacements: 16 Futoshi Mori, 17 Masataka Mikami, 18 Takuma Asahara, 19 Faatiga Lemalu, 20 Yoshiya Hosoda, 21 Kaito Shigeno, 22 Mifiposeti Paea, 23 Shokei Kin.

Date: Saturday, June 9

Venue: Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria

Kick-off: 17.05 (15.05 GMT; 00.05, Sunday, July 10 Japan time)

Referee: Quinton Immelman (South Africa)

Assistant referees: Jaco van Heerden  (South Africa), AJ Jacobs (South Africa)

TMO: Willie Vos (South Africa)

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