July 15, 2006: Australia 49-0 South Africa, Brisbane That record was broken in Durban on Saturday.ĥ. The final whistle marked one of the lowest points in South Africa rugby history as home fans were left to contemplate a record losing margin, with the All Blacks running in seven tries to the solitary score from Bok wing Ashwin Willemse. Less than a year after the debacle at Twickenham, Straeuli and Krige suffered more humiliation when the Boks were pummelled by their greatest rivals at Loftus Versfeld. July 19, 2003: South Africa 16-52 New Zealand, Pretoria It’s hard to believe that that when Francois Pienaar’s charges won the 1995 Rugby World Cup final by beating the All Blacks 15-12, the Boks held a positive 21-18 win-loss record against the All Blacks!Ĥ.
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In the overall head-to-head stakes, the All Backs now boast a 55-35 win-loss record, with three draws.Įven more alarming from a Springbok perspective is that since rugby turned professional in 1996, the All Blacks have won 37 matches compared to a meagre 14 by South Africa. It’s scary to think that had Beauden Barrett kicked better at posts on Saturday, the scoreline could have been near the 70-mark. With their next Test scheduled against the Wallabies at Eden Park in Auckland on October 22, the record will surely be broken.Įden Park is a ground the All Blacks haven’t lost at in 22 years and I can’t see anything but a New Zealand win. It’s a record they now share with two former All Black teams and the Springbok team of 1997/98.
The All Blacks’ nine tries to nil romp saw them saw them equal the Test record of consecutive wins for major Test playing nations (17). October 8, 2016: South Africa 15-57 New Zealand “In a sense - and this might sound bizarre - I would rather do what I did than chuck the towel in, as some of the other Springbok players did,” he wrote in his autobiography.ģ. Krige said the game had taken two years off his career and he was also upset as he felt some of the Springbok players gave up. Krige in later years admitted that it was the one game where he completely lost his cool, knowing that nothing could be done in order to avoid defeat. Things got so bad that a frustrated Bok skipper Corne Krige, attempting a punch at a ruck, accidentally knocked out his own flyhalf, Andre Pretorius. It was a setback the Boks could never recover from as they suffered their heaviest ever defeat - 50 points. Lock Jannes Labuschagne was sent off in the 23rd minute for a late and dangerous tackle on English pivot Jonny Wilkinson. This game was part of a "dark period" in Springbok rugby, with Rudolf Straeuli as coach. November 23, 2002: England 53-3 South Africa, London Most of South Africa’s top provincial teams would beat Japan which makes the result the most embarrassing moment in Springbok rugby history.Ģ. The bookmakers had the Boks to win by 44 points beforehand, but the South Africans were outfoxed by a smarter team, who knew they had to move the ball around against their bigger, more fancied opponents. September 19, 2015: South Africa 32-34 Japan, Brightonįor me, this match at last year’s Rugby World Cup remains the worst result in the history of Springbok rugby.
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