Springboks set Wallabies mark, Kiwis top Pumas
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South Africa won its first match in Australia in four years and kept the Wallabies winless in the Rugby Championship with a record 38-12 victory yesterday.
The Springboks won for the first time in nine visits to Brisbane in 42 years with a four tries-to-nil thrashing to remain unbeaten in the southern hemisphere series along with the All Blacks, who they face in Auckland next Saturday.
It was the biggest win by the Springboks in Australia and they totted up more points than their last 32-25 win over the Wallabies in Australia in 2009.
The Boks led 16-6 at halftime but broke the game wide open in the second half with three tries in eight minutes to keep Ewen McKenzie without a win in three tests as Wallabies coach.
Forward Coenie Oosthuizen, skipper Jean de Villiers, fullback Zane Kirchner and winger Willie Le Roux scored tries with Morne Steyn kicking three conversions and four penalties.
The Wallaby defense disintegrated in the second half in the face of a disciplined South African assault and dominant scrum and the hosts finished without a try in another deeply disappointing display by the Australians, who have now lost five of their six tests this year.
It was a triumph for coach Heynecke Meyer, who wildly cheered his team’s tries watching from the coach’s box, after the Springboks’ back-to-back wins over Argentina to keep the pressure on World Cup champion New Zealand in the Rugby Championship. With the bonus point South Africa leads the Rugby Championship table.
Earlier in Hamilton, the All Blacks produced an error-strewn performance and lost captain Richie McCaw to injury in the process as they downed Argentina 28-13.
McCaw was left writhing in agony with a knee injury and coach Steve Hansen said he could be out for at least four weeks.
McCaw had been one of the few All Blacks to impress as they took control midway through the first half, when piling on 12 unanswered points in a 10-minute spell, after Argentina was punished with a yellow card for a professional foul.
But it was not the performance New Zealand wanted for its 382nd victory, which put it level with France as the most successful test-playing nations.
Hansen blamed their quest for bonus points as much as the weather for the sub-par performance. “A lot of the errors were in the contact or in the catching and a lot of that was because of the conditions,” he said.
Aaron Smith scored two tries in the first half and Julian Savea touched down in the second.
Kiwi flyhalf Dan Carter, in his comeback test after being sidelined with a calf injury, became the first player to top 1,400 test points when he lifted his tally to 1,409 before he was replaced early in the second half.
Juan Manuel Leguizamon scored Argentina’s sole try.
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