New Zealand and South Africa each take aim at a record fourth World Cup crown when they meet in this year’s final in Paris on Saturday.
New Zealand had not won a series against South Africa in the first 35 years of competition between the two nations but went into the fourth and final test in Auckland in 1956 with a 2-1 lead.
But the debutant Springboks would not be denied in front of jubilant new President Nelson Mandela and put in a stoic defensive effort at Ellis Park before claiming a drama-filled extra-time win thanks to Joel Stransky’s drop-goal.South Africa had lost their opening two games of the Tri-Nations in 2000, including a 25-12 defeat in New Zealand in which they failed to score a try.
They led 33-13 just past the half-hour mark in front of a disbelieving home crowd, but the All Blacks fought back and were 40-39 ahead before a final try from South African scrumhalf Werner Swanepoel.This absolute hammering at the hands of the All Blacks in Albany came two years before the Springboks lifted the World Cup in 2019 and was an illustration of the depths they had sunk to before the arrival of Rassie Erasmus as coach.
Ten of the Springboks who suffered this humiliation at the North Harbour Stadium are in the match-day 23 for Saturday’s final in Paris.A World Cup warm-up game in London in August saw South Africa inflict the heaviest defeat on New Zealand in their 120-year test history.
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