TheBreakdown
Full time14 August 1999
South Africa
10–9
Australia
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · Tri Nations 1999Head-to-head

South Africa won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 1’PAustralia penalty · Matt Burke0–3
  2. 1’PAustralia penalty · Matt Burke0–6
  3. 1’PAustralia penalty · Matt Burke0–9
  4. 16’PSouth Africa penalty · Jannie de Beer3–9
  5. 68’CSouth Africa conversion · Jannie de Beer5–9
  6. 68’TSouth Africa try · Robbie Fleck10–9

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Os du RandtProp
  2. 2Naka DrotskeHooker
  3. 3Cobus VisagieProp
  4. 4Albert van den BergSecond row
  5. 5Selborne BoomeSecond row
  6. 6Andre VenterFlanker
  7. 7Andre VosFlanker
  8. 8Rassie ErasmusNumber 8
  9. 9Joost van der WesthuizenScrum-half
  10. 10Jannie de BeerFly-half
  11. 11Pieter RossouwWing
  12. 12Brendan VenterCentre
  13. 13Robbie FleckCentre
  14. 14Deon KayserWing
  15. 15Percy MontgomeryFull-back
  16. 16Chris RossouwBench
  17. 17Ollie le RouxBench
  18. 18Mark AndrewsBench
  19. 19Ruben KrugerBench
  20. 20Werner SwanepoelBench
  21. 21Gaffie du ToitBench
  22. 22Breyton PaulseBench

Australia

  1. 1Richard HarryProp
  2. 2Phil KearnsHooker
  3. 3Andrew BladesProp
  4. 4David GiffinSecond row
  5. 5Tom BowmanSecond row
  6. 6Matt CockbainFlanker
  7. 7David WilsonFlanker
  8. 8Toutai KefuNumber 8
  9. 9George GreganScrum-half
  10. 10Tim HoranFly-half
  11. 11Ben TuneWing
  12. 12Nathan GreyCentre
  13. 13Daniel HerbertCentre
  14. 14Joe RoffWing
  15. 15Matt BurkeFull-back
  16. 16Michael FoleyBench
  17. 17Patricio NoriegaBench
  18. 18Mark ConnorsBench
  19. 19Tiaan StraussBench
  20. 20Chris WhitakerBench
  21. 21Rod KaferBench
  22. 22Jason LittleBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 55–41 Australia, 3 drawn in 99 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
Australia 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.