Description | The big sheet covers the 10 August 1996 match. It has four sections cut from it, including information about both teams' players and New Zealand's replacements. It is accompanied by: - Programmes for the 10 August match and also matches on 20 July 1996 at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand (annotated) and 17 August 1996 at The Stadium Kings Park, Durban. - Notes, including introductions to the 10 and 17 August matches and information about the players. - Cuttings and pages from The Sunday Times, The New Zealand Herald, the Sunday Star-Times and other unidentified newspapers. - Photocopied pages from Rugby News including articles about the tour, the Tri Nations Series, Australia and Fiji. - Issue of New Zealand New UK Rugby Special, 24 July 1996. - Fax from Lester Mills of the Pretoria News to Marion Huston providing a newspaper article concerning the Springboks, dated 12 July 1996. - Notice regarding an amendment of South Africa's visa policy, dated 12 June 1996. - Photocopied pages from Bill McLaren's passport. - Bundle of updated statistics regarding South Aftrica versus New Zealand, dated 12 August 1996. - Letter from Geoff Millar to Bill McLaren regarding Zinzan Brooke's tries, dated 24 June 1996. - Pages taken from a magazine or programme providing All Black statistics to 1 January 1992.
The score of this Tri Nations Series match was South Africa 18 - 29 New Zealand. The big sheet records:
South Africa Team: Andre Joubert, James Small, Japie Mulder, Hennie le Roux, Peter [Pieter] Hendriks, Joel Stranski, Joost van der Westhuizen, Pieter du Randt, John Allan, Marius Hurter, Steve Atherton, Marc Andrews, Francois Pienaar, Gary Teichman [Teichmann] and Ruben Kruger. Replacements: Justin Swart, Henry Honiball, Yokkie Viljoen, Dawie Theron, Hannes Strydom and Henry Tromp.
New Zealand Team: Christian Cullen, Jeff Wilson, Frank Bunce, Wr [Walter] Little, Jonah Lomu, Andrew Mehrtens, Justin Marshall, Craig Dowd, Sean Fitzpatrick, Olo Brown, Ian Jones, Robin Brooke, Michael Jones, Z-Z Brooke and Josh Kronfeld. Replacements: Andrew Blowers, Alama Ieremia, Jon Preston, Blair Larsen, Mark Allen and Norman Hewitt.
Referee: David McHugh. Assistant referees / touch judges: Brian Stirling and Gordon Black. |