Springboks by the numbers
SPOTLIGHT: South Africa may have a superior Test record to Australia, but Brisbane is not a place where the Springboks have had much success.
The Boks and Wallabies have contested 93 Tests – with SA winning 50, losing 40 and there were three drawn matches.
SA have scored 1 860 points, conceded 1 653; scored 218 tries and conceded 170.
The highest score was the Boks’ 61-22 win in Pretoria in 1997.
SA’s biggest win was by 45 points (53-8 in Johannesburg in 2008).
There has only been one Bok win in Brisbane, a 38-12 win at Lang Park in September 2013.
Their biggest-ever loss to Australia was the infamous 0-49 implosition in Brisbane (also Lang Park) in July 2006.
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Miscellaneous:
* This will be Eben Etzebeth’s 123rd Test, leaving him four appearances away from equalling Victor Matfield’s Springbok Test record (127).
* Frans Malherbe will extend his number of starts at tighthead prop to 60 Tests, trailing only Tendai Mtawarira (102) and Os du Randt (75).
* The centre pairing of Jesse Kriel and Damian de Allende will extend their record of playing the most Test matches together in the midfield to 31 (the previous record was held by Jean de Villiers and Jaque Fourie with 29 Tests).
* Cheslin Kolbe needs four points to reach 100 points in Tests for South Africa.
* Should Kwagga Smith take the field, he will need only six more Test caps to join the club of Springboks with 50 Test caps.
* Willie le Roux will take another step closer to joining the select club of Springbok Centurions as he earns his 96th cap on Saturday.
* The total Test caps for the Springbok starting line-up is 836.
* There are 335 caps in the backline, with 501 caps among the forwards. On the bench, there are a further 269 caps.
* The average caps per player in the backline is 47, the forwards 62, while the players on the bench average 33.
