Rugby: South Africa demolish Namibia

AUCKLAND: Defending champions South Africa trumped their own World Cup points’ record with an 87-0 blitz of doughty Namibia to all but book a place in the quarter-finals. The win also saw winger Bryan Habana becoming South Africa’s all-time leading try-scorer powering through to one of the Springboks’ 12 tries in their rout of Namibia. Habana crossed in the 22nd minute of the Pool D match for his 39th try in 72 matches. “Records are great to get but without my coaching staff and teammates it would never have been possible,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd, 2011.