Today in SA sports history: April 26
1980 — Naas Botha, Rob Louw and Ray Mordt are among seven players who make their Springbok debut against a South American team at the Wanderers cricket ground in Johannesburg. SA, who won 24-9, had not played an international since beating a World XV in August 1977.
1982 — Charlie Weir takes on American Davey Moore for the WBA junior-middleweight crown at the open-air Ellis Park rugby stadium in Johannesburg. The fight had been delayed for two days because of rain. Weir never got going and was knocked out in the fifth round. Moore later lost his belt to Roberto Duran, while Weir had two more fights before hanging up his gloves.
1995 — Bafana Bafana capitalise on poor goalkeeping as they beat Lesotho 3-1 in front of an aggressive crowd in Maseru. Doctor Khumalo, Edward Motale and Helman Mkhalele took advantages of errors by goalkeeper Isiah Phakisi.
2003 — Jacques Rudolph scores an unbeaten 222 on debut as the Proteas amass 470/2 declared against Bangladesh in the first Test in Chittagong. Boete Dippenaar posted 177 not out. SA went on to win the Test the next day.
