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Full time21 June 2008
South Africa
26–0
Italy
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · Tour 2008Head-to-head

South Africa won by 26 points.

Scoring

  1. 7’TSouth Africa try · Frans Steyn5–0
  2. 8’CSouth Africa conversion · Frans Steyn7–0
  3. 18’TSouth Africa try · Bismarck Du Plessis12–0
  4. 19’CSouth Africa conversion · Frans Steyn14–0
  5. 44’TSouth Africa try · Bismarck Du Plessis19–0
  6. 56’TSouth Africa try · Tendai Mtawarira24–0
  7. 57’CSouth Africa conversion · Frans Steyn26–0

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Bismarck Du PlessisHooker
  3. 3CJ Van Der LindeProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Luke WatsonFlanker
  7. 7Juan SmithFlanker
  8. 8Ryan KankowskiNumber 8
  9. 9Ricky JanuarieScrum-half
  10. 10Frans SteynFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Gcobani BoboCentre
  14. 14Odwa NdunganeWing
  15. 15Conrad JantjesFull-back
  16. 16Schalk BritsBench
  17. 17Brian MujatiBench
  18. 18Andries BekkerBench
  19. 19Joe Van NiekerkBench
  20. 20Schalk BurgerBench
  21. 21Peter GrantBench
  22. 22Ruan PienaarBench

Italy

  1. 1Michele RizzoProp
  2. 2Leonardo GhiraldiniHooker
  3. 3Carlos NietoProp
  4. 4Santiago DellapèSecond row
  5. 5Carlo Del FavaSecond row
  6. 6Alessandro ZanniFlanker
  7. 7Robert BarbieriFlanker
  8. 8Josh SoleNumber 8
  9. 9Simon PiconeScrum-half
  10. 10Luke McLeanFly-half
  11. 11Matteo PratichettiWing
  12. 12Gonzalo GarciaCentre
  13. 13Andrea MasiCentre
  14. 14Kaine RobertsonWing
  15. 15Andrea MarcatoFull-back
  16. 16Fabio OngaroBench
  17. 17Ignacio Fernandez- RouyetBench
  18. 18Tommaso ReatoBench
  19. 19Jaco ErasmusBench
  20. 20Pablo CanavosioBench
  21. 21Enrico PatrizioBench
  22. 22Riccardo PavanBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 18–1 Italy in 19 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
Italy going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.