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Etzebeth seeks to cap milestone with Rugby C'ship title
September 27, 2024
|The Straits Times
Eben Etzebeth will seek to write another chapter in an already storied career when he takes the field for the Springboks in their Rugby Championship title decider against Argentina at Mbombela Stadium on Sept 28.
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The towering forward will become South Africa's most-capped rugby Test player with his 128th appearance, overtaking fellow lock Victor Matfield, who retired in 2015.
The 32-year-old will hope to finish his record-breaking day by holding aloft the Rugby Championship trophy, which South Africa will secure unless Argentina can win with a bonus point and prevent the Springboks from earning a point.
Etzebeth has already been in two Rugby World Cup-winning teams - in 2019 in Japan and 2023 in France - and part of a victorious team against the visiting British and Irish Lions in 2021.
He was a member of a team who won a shortened Rugby Championship in 2019, but South Africa have yet to come out on top in a full six-match programme since the Southern Hemisphere championship was expanded to four teams with the inclusion of Argentina in 2012.
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