For a player whose preparation for the series had been reduced to a drip due to Covid-19 protocols, Siya Kolisi proved to be both Captain Courageous and Contagious in the second Test against the British & Irish Lions in Cape Town.
Faf de Klerk put the ball on the proverbial 'tiekie', Handré Pollard probed and prodded behind the rush defence, while Willie le Roux and even Makazole Mapimpi found the solace of touch with prodigious punts.
In the second half the addition of Lood de Jager to the second row vacated by Franco Mostert, who moved to flank, gave the Boks the aerial elasticity from which to launch their much vaunted maul. It is peculiar for a starting player to become more influential when the game enters its final quarter, but that is the optical defiance Mostert is capable of. He jumps like a springbok, runs like a giraffe and defends like a guardian her cubs.
A fact often overlooked, is that when the shadows are long it isn't just the blunt bludgeoning of the Bomb Squad that pulverised the opposition. In Am and Damian de Allende the Boks have centres who effectively operate like auxiliary loose forwards at the breakdown. In defence, if one doesn't get you, the other does.
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