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Full time23 June 2012
South Africa
14–14
England
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa · Tour 2012Head-to-head

A draw.

Scoring

  1. 3’PEngland penalty · Toby Flood0–3
  2. 8’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn3–3
  3. 12’TEngland try · Danny Care3–8
  4. 17’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn6–8
  5. 31’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn9–8
  6. 46’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell9–11
  7. 63’TSouth Africa try · JP Pietersen14–11
  8. 73’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell14–14

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. 7Jacques PotgieterFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Francois HougaardScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Wynand OlivierCentre
  13. 13Jean De VilliersCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Gio AplonFull-back
  16. 16Adriaan StraussBench
  17. 17Werner KrugerBench
  18. 18Flip Van Der MerweBench
  19. 19Ryan KankowskiBench
  20. 20Ruan PienaarBench
  21. 21Elton JantjiesBench
  22. 22Bjorn BassonBench

England

  1. 1Joe MarlerProp
  2. 2Dylan HartleyHooker
  3. 3Dan ColeProp
  4. 4Tom PalmerSecond row
  5. 5Geoff ParlingSecond row
  6. 6Tom JohnsonFlanker
  7. 7James HaskellFlanker
  8. 8Thomas WaldromNumber 8
  9. 9Danny CareScrum-half
  10. 10Toby FloodFly-half
  11. 11Ben FodenWing
  12. 12Manu TuilagiCentre
  13. 13Jonathan JosephCentre
  14. 14Chris AshtonWing
  15. 15Alex GoodeFull-back
  16. 16Lee MearsBench
  17. 17Paul Doran-JonesBench
  18. 18Mouritz BothaBench
  19. 19Phil DowsonBench
  20. 20Lee DicksonBench
  21. 21Owen FarrellBench
  22. 22Brad BarrittBench

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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.