Healthy respect for SA-born flyer

MAPIMPI: RELISHING ONE LAST DUEL WITH VD MERWE

- Ross Roche

Springbok flyer Makazole Mapimpi could face his final duel with South African-born Scottish record try-scorer Duhan van der Merwe when the Boks and Scotland clash in their end-of-year-tour match at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on Sunday.

Mapimpi, at 34-years-old, is highly unlikely to make the next World Cup, and this could in fact be his final tour with the Boks, with a number of exciting young players waiting in the wings to replace him.

He will most likely be named in the Bok match-23 for the game after he was included in Wednesday's media duties, where he was asked about the threat that Van Der Merwe poses.