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Fabian Juries, South Africa’s most experienced sevens player, has rejoined the Springbok Sevens team and will be available for selection for their two remaining IRB Sevens World Series tournaments in England and Scotland.

In terms of the agreement between the Vodacom Western Province and Paul Treu, the national Sevens coach, Juries will also be available to accompany the Springboks Sevens to the Commonwealth Games to be held in October in Delhi, India.

Juries joined the squad in Stellenbosch where they are busy with preparations for the last two Series tournaments later this month at Twickenham and Murrayfield.

He also played in a warm-up match earlier today between the Springbok Sevens training squad and the SA Sevens Emerging team at the Danie Craven Stadium.

Treu was understandably pleased to welcome the mercurial Julies back to the fold.

“He’s adding a lot of experience and I’m pleased that he’s able to help out because there is still some doubt over the match fitness of Renfred Dazel and Paul Delport".

“Fabba will obviously return to Western Province if they need him, but I’m hoping that he would be able to stay with us,” explained Treu.

Juries lies third in the overall IRB Sevens try-scoring log with 173 scores in 42 tournament appearances. He was seen in Boks sevens shirt at Murrayfield in 2008, where after he joined former team mates Kabamba Floor and Danwell Demas at the Vodacom Free State Cheetahs.

He joined the Newlands-based Vodacom Western Province at the beginning of the 2010 season.

In keeping with his style of affording young talented players an opportunity to train with the national sevens squad, young outside centre Siyanda Grey who played for Eastern Province Vodacom Cup team this year, will spend the next few days sharpening his skills with the squad.

The IRB Sevens World series comes to a close later this month with the Twickenham tournament on 22-23 May and Murrayfield a week later. South Africa won their first Series title last season.