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Full time9 June 2012
South Africa
22–17
England
King's Park, Durban, South Africa · Tour 2012Head-to-head

South Africa won by 5 points.

Scoring

  1. 8’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell0–3
  2. 15’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn3–3
  3. 28’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell3–6
  4. 31’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn6–6
  5. 48’TSouth Africa try · Morne Steyn11–6
  6. 61’TSouth Africa try · Jean De Villiers16–6
  7. 65’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell16–9
  8. 67’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell16–12
  9. 71’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn19–12
  10. 78’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn22–12
  11. 82’TEngland try · Ben Foden22–17

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Bismarck Du PlessisHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Juandre KrugerSecond row
  6. 6Marcell CoetzeeFlanker
  7. 7Willem AlbertsFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Francois HougaardScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Frans SteynCentre
  13. 13Jean De VilliersCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Zane KirchnerFull-back
  16. 16Adriaan StraussBench
  17. 17Coenie OosthuizenBench
  18. 18Flip Van Der MerweBench
  19. 19Keegan DanielBench
  20. 20Ruan PienaarBench
  21. 21Pat LambieBench
  22. 22Wynand OlivierBench

England

  1. 1Joe MarlerProp
  2. 2Dylan HartleyHooker
  3. 3Dan ColeProp
  4. 4Mouritz BothaSecond row
  5. 5Geoff ParlingSecond row
  6. 6Tom JohnsonFlanker
  7. 7Chris RobshawFlanker
  8. 8Ben MorganNumber 8
  9. 9Ben YoungsScrum-half
  10. 10Owen FarrellFly-half
  11. 11Ben FodenWing
  12. 12Brad BarrittCentre
  13. 13Manu TuilagiCentre
  14. 14Chris AshtonWing
  15. 15Mike BrownFull-back
  16. 16Lee MearsBench
  17. 17Paul Doran-JonesBench
  18. 18Tom PalmerBench
  19. 19Phil DowsonBench
  20. 20Lee DicksonBench
  21. 21Toby FloodBench
  22. 22Jonathan JosephBench

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Context

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

South Africa going in
England 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.