South Africa gets its title defense started at the Rugby World Cup on Day 3 on Sunday. The South Africans used a swarming defense, a solid kicking game and a dominant set-piece to win rugby’s biggest prize for a record-tying third time four years ago in Japan.
If the Boks are to turn on the style in the back division to match their forward strength, Libbok will be orchestrating things from flyhalf. He is the only specialist No. 10 in the squad and plays more on intuition than any Springboks playmaker in recent memory.
“Really, this is where it will count for our players to deliver what they have been delivering in training and what they’ve been delivering in other games we’ve played this year.” Doubts were raised about the flanker’s availability for the World Cup when he had surgery on a serious knee injury in late April. Kolisi returned to competitive action only last month in a test against Wales and he also played in South Africa’s 35-7 beating of New Zealand in its final warmup.
This is a classic World Cup fixture, with the teams having met in pool play in every edition since the 2007 World Cup in France, when Fiji beat Wales 38-34 in an epic game in Nantes with a late try by prop Graham Dewes to advance and knock out the Welsh.Fiji is up to No. 7 in the world rankings, three places higher than Wales, which has Warren Gatland in charge after returning to the team in November. He is taking charge at a fifth World Cup, a record for a coach.
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