Blast from the past: Hestrie’s best not enough for gold

1999 — The Proteas beat Kenya by 24 runs in a four-nations ODI tournament in Nairobi. SA scored 220/7, aided by Jonty Rhodes’s 45 and Jacques Kallis’s 39. Steve Tikolo (67) and Thomas Odoyo (41) kept the hosts in the match until the latter stages of their innings.

2000 — Hestrie Cloete takes the high-jump silver at the Sydney Games, losing out on the gold on count-back. Both she and Russian winner Yelena Yelesina achieved season’s bests, clearing 2.01m, but the South African’s only failure, at 1.96, cost her. Both of them needed two shots at 2.01, and neither could clear 2.03.

2001 — Neil McKenzie scores an unbeaten 69 to guide the Proteas to a six-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in Harare and a 3-0 series triumph. SA reached the 185 winning target in 41 overs.

2007 — Wing Bryan Habana and centre Jaque Fourie score two tries each as a full-strength Springbok outfit hammers the US 64-15 in a World Cup group match in Montpellier. SA ran in nine tries.

2011 — Bryan Habana scores SA’s only try to help the Springboks beat Samoa 13-5 in a World Cup group match at North Harbour Stadium.

2012 — Robin Peterson strikes 32 from 19 balls to push the Proteas to 146/5 in their World T20 match against Australia, but it’s too little too late as SA lose the match in Colombo by eight wickets.

2016 — Opener Quinton de Kock hammers 178 from 113 balls as the Proteas beat Australia by six wickets in the first ODI at Centurion. Chasing 295 to win, SA got off to a great start, with De Kock and Rilee Rossouw (63 from 45 balls) putting on 145 for the opening wicket.

2017 — Flyhalf Elton Jantjies misses a late angled penalty attempt as the Springboks draw their Rugby Championship match against Australia 27-27 in Bloemfontein. The two sides had drawn in their previous contest three weeks earlier.

2018 — Lungi Ngidi takes 3/19 as the Proteas bowl out Zimbabwe for 117 to set up a five-wicket victory in the first ODI in Kimberley. Heinrich Klaasen top-scored for SA with a run-a-ball 44.