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Full time20 July 1996
New Zealand
15–11
South Africa
Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand · Tri Nations 1996Head-to-head

New Zealand won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens3–0
  2. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens6–0
  3. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens9–0
  4. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens12–0
  5. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens15–0
  6. –PSouth Africa penalty · Joel Stransky15–3
  7. –PSouth Africa penalty · Joel Stransky15–6
  8. –TSouth Africa try · Andre Joubert15–11

Line-ups

New Zealand

  1. 1Craig DowdProp
  2. 2Sean FitzpatrickHooker
  3. 3Olo BrownProp
  4. 4Ian JonesSecond row
  5. 5Robin BrookeSecond row
  6. 6Michael JonesFlanker
  7. 7Josh KronfeldFlanker
  8. 8Zinzan BrookeNumber 8
  9. 9Justin MarshallScrum-half
  10. 10Andrew MehrtensFly-half
  11. 11Jonah LomuWing
  12. 12Walter LittleCentre
  13. 13Frank BunceCentre
  14. 14Jeff WilsonWing
  15. 15Christian CullenFull-back
  16. 16Eric RushBench
  17. 17Scott McLeodBench
  18. 18Jon PrestonBench
  19. 19Blair LarsenBench
  20. 20Mark AllenBench
  21. 21Norm HewittBench

South Africa

  1. 1Os du RandtProp
  2. 2John AllanHooker
  3. 3Marius HurterProp
  4. 4Johan AckermannSecond row
  5. 5Mark AndrewsSecond row
  6. 6Francois PienaarFlanker
  7. 7Ruben KrugerFlanker
  8. 8Gary TeichmannNumber 8
  9. 9Johan RouxScrum-half
  10. 10Joel StranskyFly-half
  11. 11Pieter HendriksWing
  12. 12Brendan VenterCentre
  13. 13Japie MulderCentre
  14. 14James SmallWing
  15. 15Andre JoubertFull-back
  16. 16Justin SwartBench
  17. 19Balie SwartBench
  18. 20Naka DrotskeBench
  19. 21Steve AthertonBench

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Context

All-time, New Zealand 64–46 South Africa, 4 drawn in 114 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

New Zealand 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.