TheBreakdown
Full time24 November 2012
England
15–16
South Africa
Twickenham, London, England · Tour 2012Head-to-head

South Africa won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 7’PEngland penalty · Toby Flood3–0
  2. 10’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie3–3
  3. 13’PEngland penalty · Toby Flood6–3
  4. 16’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie6–6
  5. 27’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie6–9
  6. 44’TSouth Africa try · Willem Alberts6–14
  7. 45’CSouth Africa conversion · Pat Lambie6–16
  8. 63’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell9–16
  9. 74’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell12–16
  10. 80’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell15–16

Line-ups

England

  1. 1Alex CorbisieroProp
  2. 2Tom YoungsHooker
  3. 3Dan ColeProp
  4. 4Joe LaunchburySecond row
  5. 5Geoff ParlingSecond row
  6. 6Tom WoodFlanker
  7. 7Chris RobshawFlanker
  8. 8Ben MorganNumber 8
  9. 9Ben YoungsScrum-half
  10. 10Toby FloodFly-half
  11. 11Mike BrownWing
  12. 12Brad BarrittCentre
  13. 13Manu TuilagiCentre
  14. 14Chris AshtonWing
  15. 15Alex GoodeFull-back
  16. 16David PaiceBench
  17. 17David WilsonBench
  18. 18Mako VunipolaBench
  19. 19Mouritz BothaBench
  20. 20James HaskellBench
  21. 21Danny CareBench
  22. 22Owen FarrellBench
  23. 23Jonathan JosephBench

South Africa

  1. 1Gurthro SteenkampProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Juandre KrugerSecond row
  6. 6Francois LouwFlanker
  7. 7Willem AlbertsFlanker
  8. 8Duane VermeulenNumber 8
  9. 9Ruan PienaarScrum-half
  10. 10Pat LambieFly-half
  11. 11Francois HougaardWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Juan de JonghCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Zane KirchnerFull-back
  16. 16Schalk BritsBench
  17. 17Heinke van der MerweBench
  18. 18Patric CilliersBench
  19. 19Flip Van Der MerweBench
  20. 20Marcell CoetzeeBench
  21. 21Elton JantjiesBench
  22. 22Jaco TauteBench
  23. 23Lwazi MvovoBench

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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.