CJ Van Der Linde comes back onto the field as Jacobus Roux suffers an injury.

Try Lions. Brilliant play between the backs with some lovely offloads, the ball finds Ruhan Nel who scores under posts. Jantjes gets the conversion and the score is now 23-13 Cheetahs with 20 minutes remaining.

Blood sub.

Elton Jantjes slots over a penalty from 25 yards out to reduce the Cheetahs lead. Score stands at 23-6 to the Cheetahs.

Cheetahs kick us off for the second half.

Half time and Cheetahs lead the Lions by 23-3. A good half for the home side, they'll be looking to put some more points on the Lions, who have not been able to deal with the Lions. Stay with us for 2nd half updates.

Lions defender buys Pretorius' dummy off the base and the 9 goes crashing over.

Lions carry ball over their own line and so we'll have a Cheetahs scrum 5m out. 2 minutes left on the clock here

More Lions ill discipline costs them as Smit is on target once again. 5 minutes left on the Jantjes sinbin

Cheetahs scrum on the Lions 5m. Home side over the line but referee wants to go upstairs to see the grounding. Prinsloo off the base ran straight through the vacant 10 channel. Remember Lions down a man