Two experienced Springboks back in the mix for their end-of-year tour starting on 1 November against Japan at Wembley.

According to reports, winger Kurt-Lee Arendse has been running in practice again and showing no ill-effects from the ankle injury he sustained against the Wallabies at Ellis Park.

The Vodacom Bulls are confident that he’ll be fully fit to join them on their European tour which begins on 11 October against Ulster.

Those three matches should get him back up to speed to be part of the Boks’ gruelling, five-Test November series which includes matches against France and Ireland.

Lock Lood de Jager is also reportedly progressing well and his hip injury sustained in the Test against the All Blacks at Eden Park, is not as bad as first thought. He could resume his successful partnership in the Bok engine room with Eben Etzebeth, which stretches 41 Tests, for the year-end tour.

Another Bok lock, Jean Kleyn, is over the knee injury sustained against the Barbarians in Cape Town in July and played in Munster’s opening URC match against the Scarlets on Saturday.

The latter was brought to ground close to Los Pumas’ try-line before Eben Etzebeth barged over from close quarters after gathering the ball from the ensuing ruck, but his effort was disallowed after a handling error Cobus Reinach in the build-up.

Despite that setback, the Boks were soon rewarded when Marx crossed for the game’s opening try on the half-hour mark off the back of a lineout drive deep inside Argentina territory.

Irrespective of the margin of the victory, the Boks would have stayed on 91.62, which means their 67-30 triumph means little in terms of the rankings.

The visitors actually led 23-18 at one stage following Santiago Chocobares’ effort and a penalty try, allied by the accurate kicking of Santiago Carreras, but the hosts were incredible after the break.

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who was utterly spellbinding, almost single-handedly kept them in the contest and then went over with the clock in the red to take Rassie Erasmus’ men ahead at the interval.