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Full time16 June 2007
South Africa
22–19
Australia
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · Tri Nations 2007Head-to-head

South Africa won by 3 points.

Scoring

  1. 3’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery3–0
  2. 14’PAustralia penalty · Stirling Mortlock3–3
  3. 15’TSouth Africa try · Jaque Fourie8–3
  4. 16’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery10–3
  5. 30’PAustralia penalty · Stirling Mortlock10–6
  6. 32’TAustralia try · Matt Giteau10–11
  7. 33’CAustralia conversion · Stirling Mortlock10–13
  8. 38’PAustralia penalty · Stirling Mortlock10–16
  9. 45’PAustralia penalty · Stirling Mortlock10–19
  10. 48’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery13–19
  11. 54’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery16–19
  12. 75’DSouth Africa drop goal · Frans Steyn19–19
  13. 79’DSouth Africa drop goal · Frans Steyn22–19

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Gurthro SteenkampProp
  2. 2John SmitHooker
  3. 3BJ BothaProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Schalk BurgerFlanker
  7. 7Juan SmithFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Ruan PienaarScrum-half
  10. 10Butch JamesFly-half
  11. 11JP PietersenWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Jaque FourieCentre
  14. 14Ashwin WillemseWing
  15. 15Percy MontgomeryFull-back
  16. 16Gary BothaBench
  17. 17CJ Van Der LindeBench
  18. 18Johan MullerBench
  19. 19Danie RossouwBench
  20. 20Michael ClaassensBench
  21. 21Wynand OlivierBench
  22. 22Frans SteynBench

Australia

  1. 1Matt DunningProp
  2. 2Stephen MooreHooker
  3. 3Guy ShepherdsonProp
  4. 4Nathan SharpeSecond row
  5. 5Dan VickermanSecond row
  6. 6Rocky ElsomFlanker
  7. 7George SmithFlanker
  8. 8Wycliff PaluNumber 8
  9. 9George GreganScrum-half
  10. 10Stephen LarkhamFly-half
  11. 11Lote TuqiriWing
  12. 12Matt GiteauCentre
  13. 13Stirling MortlockCentre
  14. 14Drew MitchellWing
  15. 15Julian HuxleyFull-back
  16. 16Adam FreierBench
  17. 17Al BaxterBench
  18. 18Mark ChisholmBench
  19. 19Stephen HoilesBench
  20. 20Phil WaughBench
  21. 21Adam Ashley-CooperBench
  22. 22Mark GerrardBench

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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.