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' WARDS: VETERAN WORLD CUP-WINNERS IN LINE FOR MAJOR ACCOLAD

- Jacques van der Westhuyzen

Three seasoned Springbok double World Cup-winners from 2019 and 2023, Cheslin Kolbe, Eben Etzebeth and Pieter-Steph du Toit, are among the nominees for World Rugby's Player-of-the-Year for 2024. The only other candidate in the running is new Ireland captain and No 8 Caelan Doris. And, emerging flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who made his debut earlier this season before a knee injury cut short his season, is among the men nominated in the Breakthrough-of-the Year category.

He will be up against England's Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Ireland's Jamie Osborne and New Zealand's Wallace Sititi.