The Springboks finally found their voice as they silenced Twickenham with a thoroughly commanding performance to complete their end of year tour.
The English battle cry “Swing low” fell silent early on as the visitors hit the sweet, high notes with a wonderfully fashioned 27-13 win against a team they had not beaten at home since 2014.
The Boks applied unremitting defence once they were reduced to 10 men and were also adept at engineering crucial line-out steals.As you'd expect, Maro Itoje was a constant menace but opposite him Eben Etzebeth did exactly what you'd expect him to do in a game of this magnitude. He wasn't just all over the place, he was so in a heavy-handed manner.
Like Etzebeth, captain Siya Kolisi more than stood his ground in the collisions. His work in defence and at the breakdown was colossal.What was more pleasing was the continued advances of the Bok attack. At the back Arendse is a tireless terrier, not just in the way he darts into space but he relentlessly snaps at the heels of opposing ball carriers. He thoroughly cemented his place in this Bok group on tour.
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