Look back at the scoring as the Springboks suffered a shock 38-22 defeat to the Wallabies in their Rugby Championship opener at Ellis Park.

"To read that overall they achieved 68% in the lineout, missed 26 tackles for an 80% return and lost the post-contact metre battle by some 70 odd metres, with 325m playing 395m from the Wallabies, will ring alarm bells in Rassie Erasmus’s coaching team.

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Rassie Erasmus’ men scored three quick tries through Kurt-Lee Arendse, Andre Esterhuizen and Siya Kolisi to lead 22-0 after 20 minutes, but failed to capitalise on that dominance and shut the Wallabies out as they collapsed to a 38-22 defeat.

After 18 minutes of an unforgettable opening instalment to this year’s Rugby Championship, those wishing to stick the knife into Australian rugby – while also denigrating the British and Irish Lions’ recent achievement – will have been feeling pretty smug;

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The back-rower, who packed down at number eight at Ellis Park for the first time in a Springboks jersey, sustained a knee injury in the defeat to the Wallabies and is set to be out for four weeks, Erasmus confirmed: “Siya is out, I think for four weeks.”