Topic: Schalk Burger
South Africa team manager Andy Marinos said Wednesday that 21 of the preliminary Rugby World Cup squad were injured and unavailable for the away leg of the Tri-Nations championship this month.The Springboks meet Australia in Sydney on July 23 and title holders ...
South Africa included 12 of the starting line-up that won the 2007 Rugby World Cup in a preliminary squad named Monday for the defence of the title in New Zealand this year.The missing Springbok trio are fullback Percy Montgomery and loosehead prop ...
Springbok flank Schalk Burger made a winning return from injury as he captained Western Stormers to a 16-6 win over Coastal Sharks in a Super 15 southern hemisphere clash at King?s Park Saturday.Burger scored the only try of a bruising, error-ridden South ...
Full-time score in the second Tri-Nations rugby Test between New Zealand and South Africa at Westpac Stadium here on Saturday:New Zealand 31 South Africa 17(H-t: 13-7)ScorersNew Zealand - Tries: Ma'a Nonu, Mils Muliaina, Rene Ranger, Israel Dagg. Conversion: Dan Carter. Penalties: Carter ...
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 ...
England fly-half Danny Cipriani may soon be joined at the Melbourne Rebels by several leading Springboks, according to reports on Saturday.Cipriani said Friday he is to quit London side Wasps at the end of the season to play for the newly-formed Australian ...
Suspended South Africa loose forward Schalk Burger has been included in a 27-man squad for the away leg of the Tri-Nations tournament.Flanker Burger is serving an eight-week ban for eye-gouging British and Irish Lions winger Luke Fitzgerald a minute into the second ...
Schalk Burger has refused to apologise to Luke Fitzgerald for gouging the Lions winger during the Second Test.. The Springbok flanker was banned for eight weeks for "making contact with the eye area" of Fitzgerald in the latest incident of eye gouging ...
South Africa will be without lock Bakkies Botha for the third Test against the British and Irish Lions here on Saturday after his appeal against a two-week ban for a dangerous charge was rejected.Botha was cited for the second-half charge on Adam ...
South Africa lock Bakkies Botha has lost his appeal against a two-week ban. The Blue Bulls forward was cited for a dangerous charge on British and Irish Lions prop Adam Jones during last Saturday's second Test in Pretoria. Botha's appeal was heard ...
