Rautenbach - tight-head prop. (Getty Images)
FAAN RAUTENBACH
Born: 22.02.76
Height: 6ft 2in
Weight: 20st 2lb
Position: Prop
Club: Stormers
Caps: 8
Points: 5
A former A team representative, tight-head prop Rautenbach plays his Super 12 rugby for the Stormers.
A superb Super 12 series in 2002 meant he was soon elevated into the senior Springboks squad, making his debut in June against Wales when he came on the field as a replacement and scored a late try.
Just a month later, though, the former hooker was diagnosed with a stress fracture of the back, and although he fought back to full fitness early this year, a serious ankle injury suffered in the Super 12 competition sidelined him again.
However he was selected in a 40-man squad, along with four other injured players, for a training squad, and did enough there to show he could handle the rigours of a World Cup campaign.
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