Joost van der Westhuizen in Action. Spectacular Tries versus Wales 1998!!!

South Africa 28 - Wales 20 at the Wembley Stadium London on 14 November 1998.

Joost van der Westhuizen, Andre Snyman, Andre Venter and Pieter Russouw in action. Spectacular tries versus Wales 1998.

Match details:

Pinching themselves the fans roared the home side on and another penalty was given when hooker James Dalton was deemed to have been offside when no ruck had formed. Jenkins pushed Wales ahead to 11-0 and stretched his own record to 600 points in internationals in the process. Rob Howley produced an up and under and South Africa were offside again, Jenkins stepped up for 14-0, two scores in front.

The deficit only served to anger South Africa who decided to fight back and pressure Wales on their own line. When the home team collapsed the scrum, South Africa were awarded a penalty try. Pieter Roussow then broke through the Welsh back line and passed to Joost Van der Westhuizen who did his usual job of making Welsh life a misery with a try. The score stretched Van der Westhuizen's own all-time Springbok scoring record in the process. Scratching their heads, Wales went in level at half time.

Another penalty at the beginning of the second half appeared to set Welsh composure and Jenkins put them 17-14 ahead. The joy was short-lived as Franco Smith responded in kind only minutes later 17-17. Wales went 20-17 ahead with yet another penalty after South Africa interfered with a tackle on their own twenty-two. Trading penalties had become the fashion by this point in the match and camped on Wales's twenty-two, South Africa earned a penalty of their own again to draw 20-20.

It looked odds on for another draw between the two countries before late persistence saw Andre Venter break through for a late try after Van der Westhuizen had cut Wales apart earlier in the move; calls for a fumble by Johan Erasmus along the way were dismissed as the ball was deemed to have gone backwards.

The resulting conversion was missed but when the Welsh scrum went down again late into the game, a further Smith penalty sealed Wales's fate by eight points.

South Africa 28 - Wales 20

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[requiem160]

that was an awesome try

and its really good so see the strength of documentation on youtube with rugby

my favourite sunday morning entertainer 8)

[bethulie13]

Excellent, thank you for the comment

[bethulie13]

Not onl have I provided a video of these great tries but I have also put full details of the game and players in info description for the history books, please check it out and comment ant rate with style...

[icyhotwitch]

oi lekker ou Joost...lekker dae...en ou slap Chips ook. Amper weer rugby tyd ne? Kannie wag nie...

[bethulie13]

Ja nee bring aan die super 14 jong ons wil die rugby kyk, dankie vir die kyk en kommente

[ewtopher]

HA good stuff m8 look a lot better :) 5*

[rayzor1011]

SA wins that was great

5*

[UserOfCommonSense]

scoring tries against wales in the 90's was no big deal!

having lost a couple of generations of their best players to rugby league, and having no professional structure until 2003, wales were a joke. where as the other top nations went pro in 1996/7.

joost was the best 9 in the world, but SA had already put 98 points on wales earlier that year. pretty much sums up where wales were at that time.

this try will go on the same dvd as tries against fiji, tonga, samoa and argentina!

[bethulie13]

Thank you for the cool comment, had a good laugh at the ou long legs rossouw bit, he was a relaxed player but had the speed. we use to say he had wednesday legs... ja whens they going to break..lol!!! hope you caught that one, lekker bly

[bethulie13]

Thank you mate, appreciate the rating and comments.

[bethulie13]

Lekker lekker, baie dankie