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Full time10 August 2002
South Africa
23–30
New Zealand
ABSA Stadium, Durban, South Africa · Tri Nations 2002Head-to-head

New Zealand won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. 2’CSouth Africa conversion · Andre Pretorius2–0
  2. 2’TSouth Africa try · Neil de Kock7–0
  3. 4’TNew Zealand try · Leon MacDonald7–5
  4. 15’CNew Zealand conversion · Andrew Mehrtens7–7
  5. 15’TNew Zealand try7–12
  6. 28’PSouth Africa penalty · Andre Pretorius10–12
  7. 33’CSouth Africa conversion · Andre Pretorius12–12
  8. 33’TSouth Africa try · Andre Pretorius17–12
  9. 39’TNew Zealand try · Doug Howlett17–17
  10. 47’PSouth Africa penalty · Andre Pretorius20–17
  11. 49’PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens20–20
  12. 50’DSouth Africa drop goal · Andre Pretorius23–20
  13. 60’PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens23–23
  14. 73’CNew Zealand conversion · Andrew Mehrtens23–25
  15. 73’TNew Zealand try · Aaron Mauger23–30

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Lawrence SephakaProp
  2. 2James DaltonHooker
  3. 3Willie MeyerProp
  4. 4Jannes LabuschagneSecond row
  5. 5AJ VenterSecond row
  6. 6Corne KrigeFlanker
  7. 7Joe Van NiekerkFlanker
  8. 8Bobby SkinstadNumber 8
  9. 9Neil de KockScrum-half
  10. 10Andre PretoriusFly-half
  11. 11Dean HallWing
  12. 12De Wet BarryCentre
  13. 13Marius JoubertCentre
  14. 14Breyton PaulseWing
  15. 15Werner GreeffFull-back
  16. 16Faan RautenbachBench
  17. 17Ollie le RouxBench
  18. 18Victor MatfieldBench
  19. 19Hendro ScholtzBench
  20. 20Bolla ConradieBench
  21. 21Brent RussellBench
  22. 22Adi JacobsBench

New Zealand

  1. 1Greg SomervilleProp
  2. 2Tom WillisHooker
  3. 3Dave HewettProp
  4. 4Chris JackSecond row
  5. 5Simon MalingSecond row
  6. 6Reuben ThorneFlanker
  7. 7Richie McCawFlanker
  8. 8Scott RobertsonNumber 8
  9. 9Justin MarshallScrum-half
  10. 10Andrew MehrtensFly-half
  11. 11Doug HowlettWing
  12. 12Aaron MaugerCentre
  13. 13Faalogo Tana UmagaCentre
  14. 14Caleb RalphWing
  15. 15Leon MacDonaldFull-back
  16. 16Sam BroomhallBench
  17. 17Daryl GibsonBench
  18. 18Mark HammettBench
  19. 19Byron KelleherBench
  20. 20Marty HolahBench
  21. 21Joe McDonnellBench
  22. 22Jonah LomuBench

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Context

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

South Africa going in
New Zealand 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.