Wiese handed four match ban
Springbok number eight Jasper Wiese has been banned for four matches after receiving a red card against Italy last weekend.
Following a World Rugby disciplinary hearing on Tuesday for the red card he received in last week’s 45-0 victory against Italy, Wiese will serve an extensive ban the head butt that got him sent off.
Wiese will be back in contention for selection for the last three Rugby Championship matches in September and October.
The ban will rule him out of the closing Incoming Series match against Georgia in Nelspruit on Saturday, as well as the first three Rugby Championship Tests against Australia in Johannesburg and Cape Town respectively (16 and 23 August), and the first game against New Zealand in Auckland (6 September).
He will be free to play the second All Blacks Test in Wellington (13 September), and the two matches against Argentina in Durban and London (27 September and 4 October).
