Rugby World Cup - Millennium Stadium, 4 November 1999, 20:00 local, 20:00 GMT
New Zealand (12) 18 - 22 (16) South Africa (FT)

Match coverage:  Report

Timeline

Time New Zealand  Score  South Africa
10 Mehrtens - penalty goal 3 - 0
11 3 - 3 Montgomery - drop goal
16 3 - 6 Honiball - penalty goal
25 Mehrtens - penalty goal 6 - 6
26 6 - 13 Paulse - try
Honiball - conversion
32 Mehrtens - penalty goal 9 - 13
37 9 - 16 Honiball - penalty goal
40 Umaga - sub off
Alatini - sub on
Mehrtens - penalty goal		 12 - 16
47 12 - 19 Honiball - penalty goal
49 le Roux - sub on
du Randt - sub off
50 Hoeft - sub on
Dowd - sub off
52 Mehrtens - penalty goal 15 - 19
58 Swanepoel - sub on
van der Westhuizen - sub off
65 Mika - sub on
Thorne - sub off		 van den Berg - sub on
Andrews - sub off
66 Swanepoel - sub off
van der Westhuizen - sub on
67 Mehrtens - penalty goal 18 - 19
70 Oliver - sub on
Hammett - sub off
73 Vos - sub off
Kruger - sub on
74 18 - 22 Montgomery - drop goal
75 Drotske - sub off
Rossouw - sub on

Notes

 
Result South Africa won by a margin of 4 points
 
Ground name Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (neutral venue)
Attendance 53000
 
Referee PL Marshall (Australia)
 
New Zealand Test debuts none
South Africa Test debuts none

Teams

New Zealand South Africa
Tries none Tries Paulse (26)
Cons none Cons Honiball (26)
Pens Mehrtens (10, 25, 32, 40, 52, 67) Pens Honiball (16, 37, 47)
Drops none Drops Montgomery (11, 74)
    Team
15 FB
Jeff Wilson
14 W
Tana Umaga
13 C
Christian Cullen
12 C
Alama Ieremia
11 W
Jonah Lomu
10 FH
Andrew Mehrtens
9 SH
Justin Marshall
1 P
Craig Dowd
2 H
Mark Hammett
3 P
Kees Meeuws
4 L
Norm Maxwell
5 L
Royce Willis
6 F
Reuben Thorne
7 F
Josh Kronfeld
8 N8
Taine Randell (c)
    Replacements
16 C
Pita Alatini
17 F
Dylan Mika
18 P
Carl Hoeft
19 H
Anton Oliver
20
Tony Brown
21
Rhys Duggan
22
Ian Jones
    Team
15 FB
Percy Montgomery
14 W
Breyton Paulse
13 C
Robbie Fleck
12 C
Pieter Muller
11 W
Stefan Terblanche
10 FH
Henry Honiball
9 SH
Joost van der Westhuizen (c)
1 P
Os du Randt
2 H
Naka Drotske
3 P
Cobus Visagie
4 L
Krynauw Otto
5 L
Mark Andrews
6 F
Johan Erasmus
7 F
Andre Venter
8 N8
Andre Vos
    Replacements
16 SH
Werner Swanepoel
17 F
Ruben Kruger
18 L
Albert van den Berg
19 P
Ollie le Roux
20 H
Chris Rossouw
21
Wayne Julies
22
Jannie de Beer

Match stats

New Zealand   South Africa
0 Tries 1
0 from 0 Conversion goals 1 from 1
6 from 6 Penalty goals 3 from 3
100.0% Kick at goal success 100.0%
0 Dropped goals 2
Kick/pass/run
35 Kicks from hand 43
168 Passes 97
133 Runs 83
579 Metres run with ball 373
Attacking
0% (0%/0%) Possession (1H/2H) 100% (100%/0%)
15 Clean breaks 6
21 Defenders beaten 13
18 Offloads 11
64 from 73 (87.7%) Rucks won 46 from 50 (92.0%)
0 from 0 Mauls won 0 from 0
29 Turnovers conceded 27
Defensive
58/13 Tackles made/missed 108/21
82.0% Tackling success rate 84.0%
Set pieces
20 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 7 won, 1 lost (87.5%)
18 won, 1 lost (94.7%) Lineouts on own throw 10 won, 1 lost (90.9%)
Discipline
9 Penalties conceded 14
0/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

NZ stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Wilson 0/0 0 5/7/11 18 1 1 1 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Umaga 0/0 0 2/3/6 52 1 1 1 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Cullen 0/0 0 4/10/14 96 3 4 2 5 3/2 0/0 0 0/0
C Ieremia 0/0 0 0/9/11 10 0 0 1 1 9/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Lomu 0/0 0 1/6/11 66 1 3 4 2 2/0 0/0 1 0/0
FH Mehrtens 0/0 18 18/33/9 23 0 0 1 1 3/2 0/0 0 0/0
SH Marshall 0/0 0 2/68/10 36 1 0 1 1 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Dowd 0/0 0 0/0/2 1 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 2 0/0
H Hammett 0/0 0 0/2/5 37 2 1 0 1 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Meeuws 0/0 0 0/1/9 67 1 6 0 1 1/0 0/0 2 0/0
L Maxwell 0/0 0 0/1/4 11 0 0 0 0 3/1 10/0 0 0/0
L Willis 0/0 0 1/2/4 15 1 0 0 0 1/1 4/0 2 0/0
F Thorne 0/0 0 0/2/3 18 0 1 0 3 7/1 3/0 2 0/0
F Kronfeld 0/0 0 0/5/4 4 0 0 1 2 10/1 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Randell 0/0 0 0/9/11 62 2 1 1 3 6/2 1/0 0 0/0
(C) Alatini 0/0 0 2/4/11 24 1 3 2 5 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(F) Mika 0/0 0 0/2/2 3 0 0 2 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Hoeft 0/0 0 0/3/3 14 1 0 1 1 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
(H) Oliver 0/0 0 0/1/3 22 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

SA stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Montgomery 0/0 6 14/5/12 53 0 0 0 1 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Paulse 1/0 5 9/4/5 29 0 0 0 2 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Fleck 0/0 0 1/3/7 40 1 6 2 3 5/6 0/0 0 0/0
C Muller 0/0 0 1/3/3 13 0 0 1 1 11/3 0/0 3 0/0
W Terblanche 0/0 0 2/1/3 13 0 0 0 1 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Honiball 0/0 11 11/10/6 20 0 0 0 4 9/5 0/0 0 0/0
SH van der Westhuizen 0/0 0 4/33/10 54 2 4 2 2 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
P du Randt 0/0 0 0/3/1 2 0 0 0 0 5/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Drotske 0/0 0 0/0/3 15 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Visagie 0/0 0 0/1/2 6 0 0 1 1 5/2 0/0 0 0/0
L Otto 0/0 0 0/5/1 6 0 0 0 2 10/0 5/0 0 0/0
L Andrews 0/0 0 0/2/3 22 1 0 0 2 3/0 1/0 1 0/0
F Erasmus 0/0 0 1/8/10 36 1 1 2 4 9/0 0/0 1 0/0
F Venter 0/0 0 0/5/9 32 1 0 2 0 16/0 2/0 1 0/0
N8 Vos 0/0 0 0/5/4 18 0 1 0 2 8/1 2/0 3 0/0
(SH) Swanepoel 0/0 0 0/9/1 10 0 0 1 1 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
(F) Kruger 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
(L) van den Berg 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) le Roux 0/0 0 0/0/2 3 0 1 0 0 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
(H) Rossouw 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards