Springboks’ Burger back for second rugby Test against Lions
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- Springboks’ Burger back for second rugby Test against Lions
- Ex-Sri Lanka Rugby star Hadji mar dies
- CCTV footage crucial to French beating case
Springboks’ Burger back for second rugby Test against Lions
The Canadian Press
The blindside flanker replaced Heinrich Brussow in the team announced Tuesday. Brussow stepped in for Burger and scored a try in his first start in last weekend’s 26-21 victory in Durban to give the world champions a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. But Burger returns to boost a Boks pack in Pretoria hoping to mark his first appearance against the Lions with a typically rampaging performance and a victory which would make the third test in Johannesburg irrelevant. “It’s nice to be back on the Springbok lineup again especially against the Lions and for my 50th cap” Burger said.
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Ex-Sri Lanka Rugby star Hadji mar dies
Ceylon Daily News
It was hard to believe that Hadji is no more as he was a charming figure full of life with a permanent smile on his face. Hadji began his rugby career at St. Peter’s and on leaving school was an automatic choice for CR and FC. For nearly two decades Hadji played as a prop forward for CR combining with Bumpy Jayasekera as hooker and Dushyantha Samarasekera as co-prop forward.
CCTV footage crucial to French beating case
Stuff.co.nz
Bastareaud suffered severe bruising around his eye and needed four stitches to his face after four or five men attacked him in central Wellington early on Sunday. The attack was hours after France’s 14-10 second-test defeat by New Zealand on Saturday. France’s assistant coach Emile Ntamack confirmed he had been cleared of a suspected fractured eye socket. Bastareaud dubbed the “French Nonu” because of his dreadlocks spoke to police from Sydney yesterday.
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