Player of the Year Cecil Afrika has been included in the final squad of 12 Blitzbok players for round one of the HSBC Sevens World Series to be held on Friday and Saturday at the Gold Coast in Australia. Afrika has recovered fully from a broken jaw he suffered during the pre-season and will be in action at Skilled Park, the new home of Australian Sevens. Branco du Preez and William Small-Smith are the two players who miss out.

Incredible stuff from the top try scoring front ranker. Springboks get ready for the English. Bjorn Basson, Jean de Villiers, JJ Engelb.

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The South African Sports Fans Super Hero. And should really be starting for the Boks. That is if the largely Cape based scribes at Sport24 and the way they interpret the data are to be believed. I think there are a lot more things to consider so allow me to touch on a few of them before coming back to the kicking success rates.

Sports with a slice of life. So it happened again, we exited another ICC event prematurely after much hype an anticipation. Some diehard fans claim that we did not chokewell maybe not against Australia but how on earth did we lose against Pakistan and last night against India for that matter. Facts are, we seem to choke in tournament cricket. We can put it together when playing the best teams in the world, home or away. But when it comes to a Cup style tournament we tend to underperform.