Rugby

It is understood that SA Rugby have now settled on a full-blown Currie Cup packed with the country’s Springboks, starting on August 28 and comprising seven or eight teams

New Zealand rugby is flying at the moment and hosting a Rugby Championship that they would be overwhelming favourites to win is just the tonic they need after their failure in Japan at the World Cup.

Tomkinson's 82nd-minute try levelled the scores at 31-31 before Mitchell Hunt slammed over the match-winning conversion to consign the Chiefs to a record-equalling sixth successive loss.

After weeks of uncertainty, SA Rugby and the British & Irish Lions have confirmed that the 2021 tour to South Africa will go ahead as scheduled.

The Blues produced a massive defensive effort on their goal line in the final five minutes to preserve an important win for the hosts.

SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux insisted that there is a very legal agreement in place for Super Rugby which needs to be acted within.

New Zealand Rugby’s announcement that their Super Rugby future lay within the Australasia-Pacific region paves the way for SA Rugby's move to Europe.

Werner Kok, the World Sevens Player of the Year in 2015 and an Olympic Games bronze medallist (2016), joined the Sharks last week after 183 appearances for the Blitzboks.

Jordie Barrett's conversion upstaged older brother Beauden, who was making his first appearance for the Blues at Wellington Regional Stadium after he moved north this year following nine seasons with the Hurricanes.

New Zealand has been confirmed as the preferred hosts of a centralised Rugby Championship later this year.