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17 September 2016
545th All Black test
NEW ZEALAND v SOUTH AFRICA (THE RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP 2016, 1st test) at AMI Stadium, Christchurch, New Zealand
Saturday 17th September 2016
Fulltime score – New Zealand 41 South Africa 13
Halftime – New Zealand 15 South Africa 10
Attendance; 21,000
Conditions; Weather clear but cool, dry ground; evening game
Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia)
Assistant Referees: Pascal Gauzere (France), Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)
The scorers:
For New Zealand (41)
Tries: Dagg, J Savea, B Smith, A Savea, Whitelock, Perenara
Cons: Barrett (4)
Pen: Barrett
For South Africa (13)
Try: Habana
Con: Jantjies
Pens: Jantjies (2)
New Zealand: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Israel Dagg (rep’d by L.Sopoaga 68m), 13 Malakai Fekitoa, 12 Ryan Crotty (rep’d by A Lienert-Brown 67m), 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith (rep’d by T.J.Perenara 64m), 8 Kieran Read (c), 7 A.Savea (rep’d by L.Romano 60m), 6 Jerome Kaino (rep’d by M.Todd 52m), 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks (rep’d by C.Faumuina 54m), 2 Dane Coles (rep’d by C.Taylor 67m) and 1 Joe Moody (rep’d by W.Crockett 46m)
South Africa: 15 Johan Goosen (rep’d by Damian de Allende 51m), 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Juan de Jongh, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Elton Jantjies (rep’d by Morne Steyn 60m), 9 Faf de Klerk, 8 Warren Whiteley, 7 Teboho Mohoje (rep’d by Willem Alberts 51m), 6 Francois Louw (rep’d by Jaco Kriel 60m), 5 Pieter-Steph du Toit (rep’d by Franco Mostert 63m), 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Vincent Koch (rep’d by Lourens Adriaanse 72m), 2 Adriaan Strauss (c) (rep’d by Malcolm Marx 44m) and 1 Tendai Mtawarira (rep’d by Steven Kitshoff 60m)
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With this win the All Blacks regained The Rugby Championship; which they had last held in 2014 (Australia had been the winners last year) The win came with two rounds of the competition still to play.
New Zealand’s test winning record moved up to 15 tests in a row.
Kieran Read set a new world record in this game; winning his first 15 test matches as a captain. (Beating Brian Lochore’s former record of 14, beginning in 1966)
Owen Franks completed his 84th test match without scoring a try; thus setting a new world ‘non try-scoring’ mark. The previous record of 83 non-scoring test matches was held by Salvatore Perugini of Italy.
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James 'Buster' Barrett, in his time the lightest AB forward, went to WWI in 1915 with the Auckland Mounted Rifles division. His horse was trained for war while away but never saw any action and never returned.
GAINSFORD, JOHN
Western Province and South Africa
33 internationals for Sth Africa 1960–67
One of South Africa’s greatest players, John Gainsford played in what was then a record number of internationals for a centre in the Springbok colours.
A big, strong-running centre with positive instincts for attack, he made his first-class debut as a 19-year-old, before joining the Junior Springboks for their 1959 tour of Argentina. He came into the South African test team in 1960, when he appeared in the only test against the Scotland touring team and in all four games the same season against the All Blacks. Thereafter, until 1967, only injury kept him out of test teams.
In his seven seasons as a Springbok, Gainsford earned world-wide respect. After only five years he became the highest-capped South African player, beating the old mark of 28 tests, held by Johan Claassen, in the third test at Christchurch on the 1965 New Zealand tour. This was a feat which he celebrated by scoring two brilliant tries as the Springboks came back from 5–16 at half-time to score a notable victory.
At the time of his retirement, after the 1967 tour by France, Gainsford was also South Africa’s top test try-scorer, with eight tries. Both his appearances and try tally records were broken in subsequent years, but it took until 2001 before Japie Mulder passed his record for being South Africa’s highest-capped centre.
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