Today in SA sports history: November 26
1992 — Jonty Rhodes and Brian McMillan rescue the SA cricket team after a dramatic early collapse on the first day of the second Test against India at the Wanderers. The hosts lost their first four wickets for 26 runs and Rhodes and McMillan came together at 73/5. Rhodes made 91 and McMillan 98 to steer the hosts to 292. The match ended in a draw.
1994 — The SA soccer team beat Ghana 2-1 in a Simba Cup four-nations match at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Marks Maponyane scored in the first half and Doctor Khumalo converted a penalty in the second half.
1994 — The Springboks complete an abbreviated end-of-year tour unbeaten as they down Wales 20-12 in Cardiff. Fullback Andre Joubert, eighthman Rudolf Straeuli and left-wing Chester Williams scored tries, with flyhalf Hennie le Roux adding one conversion and a penalty.
1995 — Shaun Bartlett scores twice as Bafana Bafana beat Zimbabwe 2-0 to win the four-nations Simba Cup at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.
2000 — The Springboks beat Wales 23-13 at the Millennium Stadium, with right-wing Breyton Paulse and scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen scoring tries.
2005 — SA are beaten 26-20 by France at Stade de France, with lock Bakkies Botha and centre Jaque Fourie dotting down. The hosts scored three tries.
2012 — Faf du Plessis scores a defiant 110 not out in Adelaide as the Proteas force a draw in the second Test against Australia. Captain Graeme Smith had scored 122 in SA’s first innings of 388. But the key was the second innings, where SA, needing 430 to win, survived 148 overs to the end of the match on 248/8.
2006 — Justin Kemp scores an unbeaten 100 from 89 balls and Andrew Hall 56 to help the Proteas recover from 136/7 to 274/7 in the third ODI against India at Newlands. Hall took three wickets and Shaun Pollock four as SA bowled out the visitors for 168 to lead the five-match series 2-0.
2016 — The Springboks lose to Wales 13-27 at the Millennium Stadium, being outscored two tries to one. Flank Uzair Cassiem scored SA’s only try. The home team’s fullback, Leigh Halfpenny, kicked five penalties.
2016 — Debutant Tabraiz Shamsi bags his first Test wicket on the third day of the third and final Test against Australia in Adelaide. The spinner dismissed his Aussie counterpart, Nathan Lyon (13), but it didn’t help the Proteas cause in the end, with SA losing the match by seven wickets in four days. Not that it mattered in the end because SA had already claimed the series — they were 2-0 up going into this contest — for their third consecutive Test series triumph Down Under.
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