TheBreakdown
Full time22 November 2008
England
6–42
South Africa
Twickenham, London, England · Tour 2008Head-to-head

South Africa won by 36 points.

Scoring

  1. 3’PEngland penalty · Danny Cipriani3–0
  2. 7’PSouth Africa penalty · Ruan Pienaar3–3
  3. 16’TSouth Africa try · Danie Rossouw3–8
  4. 17’CSouth Africa conversion · Ruan Pienaar3–10
  5. 20’TSouth Africa try · Ruan Pienaar3–15
  6. 21’CSouth Africa conversion · Ruan Pienaar3–17
  7. 26’PSouth Africa penalty · Ruan Pienaar3–20
  8. 29’PEngland penalty · Danny Cipriani6–20
  9. 52’TSouth Africa try · Adi Jacobs6–25
  10. 53’CSouth Africa conversion · Ruan Pienaar6–27
  11. 64’PSouth Africa penalty · Ruan Pienaar6–30
  12. 78’TSouth Africa try · Jaque Fourie6–35
  13. 79’CSouth Africa conversion · Frans Steyn6–37
  14. 82’TSouth Africa try · Bryan Habana6–42

Line-ups

England

  1. 1Tim PayneProp
  2. 2Lee MearsHooker
  3. 3Phil VickeryProp
  4. 4Steve BorthwickSecond row
  5. 5Tom PalmerSecond row
  6. 6James HaskellFlanker
  7. 7Tom ReesFlanker
  8. 8Nick EasterNumber 8
  9. 9Danny CareScrum-half
  10. 10Danny CiprianiFly-half
  11. 11Ugo MonyeWing
  12. 12Riki FluteyCentre
  13. 13Jamie NoonCentre
  14. 14Paul SackeyWing
  15. 15Delon ArmitageFull-back
  16. 16Dylan HartleyBench
  17. 17Matt StevensBench
  18. 18Simon ShawBench
  19. 19Tom CroftBench
  20. 20Jordan CraneBench
  21. 21Harry EllisBench
  22. 22Toby FloodBench

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2John SmitHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Schalk BurgerFlanker
  7. 7Danie RossouwFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Ricky JanuarieScrum-half
  10. 10Ruan PienaarFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Adi JacobsCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Conrad JantjesFull-back
  16. 16Chiliboy RalepelleBench
  17. 17Brian MujatiBench
  18. 18Andries BekkerBench
  19. 19Ryan KankowskiBench
  20. 20Heinrich BrussowBench
  21. 21Frans SteynBench
  22. 22Jaque FourieBench

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Context

All-time, England 16–30 South Africa, 2 drawn in 48 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

England going in
South Africa 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.