Topic: Ricky Januarie
Western Stormers scrum-half Ricky Januarie withdrew from the South Africa 2011 Rugby World Cup preliminary squad Friday and announced his retirement from international rugby union.The 29-year-old was a surprise inclusion at the expense of Sarel Pretorius of Central Cheetahs in a 49-man ...
Springbok captain John Smit will lead South Africa in the second Test against Italy here Saturday after recovering from a hamstring injury.Smit missed a laboured 29-13 first Test win in Witbank last Saturday after suffering the injury warming up before the Springboks ...
South Africa named two new caps Saturday in an experimental team for a one-off Test against Wales on June 5 in Cardiff.The reigning world champions chose Gio Aplon from Super 14 finalists Western Stormers on the right wing and franchise team-mate Francois ...
The Ospreys were cleared on Monday of fielding an ineligible player in South African scrum-half Ricky Januarie and so are free to take their place in this season's European Cup quarter-finals.Tournament organisers European Rugby Cup Ltd (ERC) informed the Welsh regional side ...
Ospreys hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the European Cup suffered a blow on Monday when it was revealed that Wales' all-time record try scorer Shane Williams could miss their last four group matches because of a torn hamstring.The 28-year-old winger ...
Coach Peter de Villiers warned his Springbok stars on Saturday that they faced tough Tests in France, Italy and Ireland during November.He was speaking here after naming a 37-strong squad for the traditional end-of-season tour to Europe that includes matches against English ...
South Africa scrum-half Fourie du Preez has been ruled out of this weekend's rugby union international against Scotland here at Murrayfield, South Africa Rugby announced Thursday.Du Preez, 26, injured a quadriceps muscle in training and his place in the starting XV for ...
The Springboks lost their battleship of a hooker yesterday as a sequel to sinking the All Blacks and stripping England of one of their more cherished records. In the great scheme of things it was a small price to pay for reminding ...
The world champions are back on track, but this win required an individual try out of nothing from Ricky Januarie with five minutes to go while they were down to 14 men. Dan Carter kicked the subsequent penalty, and New Zealand, now ...