Loosehead prop Ox Nche will lay all of it on the road to assist the Springboks defend the Webb Ellis Cup, and is relishing the set-piece battle with Scotland and Eire.

Nche was on Tuesday named by Jacques Nienaber as certainly one of 10 gamers in a 33-man Bok squad set to make their first look on the World Cup, kicking off in France in September.

He hasn’t featured for the Boks but in 2023 after a pectoral harm picked up throughout a coaching session dominated him out of the truncated Rugby Championship and warm-up match in Argentina.

However, the 28-year-old is anticipated to function towards Wales and New Zealand, in Cardiff and London respectively, over the upcoming two weekends earlier than formidable Pool B clashes with Scotland and Eire awaits.

Talking with reporters after the Bok squad announcement in Randburg, the 19-Check Bloemfontein-born flyer informed Rugby365: “Clearly set-piece clever our greatest problem will come from Scotland and Eire. It would very nicely be WP Nel and Pierre Schoeman and I do know them nicely. It is going to be a great problem.

“They scrum nicely as a pack and we must discover a solution to break them down.

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“The identical with Eire. Tactically they’re good, they’ve ways, they’ve a strong pack. I feel that is in all probability their most well-balanced Irish pack with guys like Andrew Porter and Tadhg Furlong.

“They’ve been on the prime of their sport for fairly just a few years and we get to play them at Leinster [in the United Rugby Championship] as nicely. They’re high quality props.”

He added: “Even when they [the Bok coaches] chop and alter, our scrum has all the time maintained their consistency as a result of we all the time assist one another, even when we’re competing for a similar place.

“It’s a matter of, should you get higher, I get higher.”

On what it should imply for him to symbolize his nation on the grandest stage of rugby, Nche mentioned: “There are a whole lot of feelings operating by way of me. I’m proud, nervous, excited. I can’t describe it, it nonetheless feels unreal.

“For me truthfully, it’s to offer it my greatest. Being the most effective participant I could be. It’s all or nothing. It’s the very best stage of rugby I’ll ever get to play, or anybody ever will get to play.

“So for me, it’s showcasing my highest stage of efficiency and my potential and simply letting it out on show actually.”

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