Tests between the Springboks and Wales may be ponderously predictable but they remain thoroughly tense, nerve-jangling affairs.
South Africa's 23-18 victory at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Saturday night was no different and it took the Springboks 72 minutes to produce their world champion qualities when they got themselves decisively in front through a maul try by Malcolm Marx.
Oddly though, given the wet conditions there was only one scrum in the opening half. The Boks profited richly from that facet in the second half. The Boks lost Damian Willemse inside the first 20 minutes when he left the field for a head injury assessment. The knock was severe enough to preclude his return which paved the way for Frans Steyn.
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