a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/THlFq8NyfHI/AAAAAAAAEd4/suCY4g6MC_g/s1600/hougaard-aac-loftus.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/THlFq8NyfHI/AAAAAAAAEd4/suCY4g6MC_g/s400/hougaard-aac-loftus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510512223085296754" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Victor Matfield celebrated his 100th Test match in style as the Springboks ended their four match losing streak with a 44-31 win over the Wallabies at Loftus Versfeld in what was a thrilling Tri Nations match. /spanbr /br /Australia came out firing as they streaked off to a 14-0 lead after just five minutes, silencing the Pretoria crowd. The Boks bounced back but were later trailing 21-7 in what proved to be a frantic, free flowing Test. Five tries were scored in the first 15 minutes.br /br /The game was finely poised at 28-24 to the Wallabies as they went into the second half, but they only managed another three points, while South Africa scored in the 49th minute through the returning Francois Steyn, and sealed the win later with a JP Pietersen try, their fifth of the match.br /br /It was a much improved display from the Springboks, who ironically defended really well throughout most of the match. The Wallabies looked lethal on attack at times though, especially early on, finding gaps and slipping through a little too easily for the home sides’ liking.br /br /In the end the match produced nine tries and the South African win meant that the Wallabies still haven’t won on the Highveld since 1963.br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"As the Springboks clawed their way back into the match, Morne Steyn kicked a massive penalty from inside his own half, bringing back memories of that second Test against the British amp; Irish Lions last year. Here's a quick clip of it, which will be replaced with highlights when possible. /spanbr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PT6nf6uOum0?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PT6nf6uOum0?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerdiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-1687886781843701413?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=_e5Z796C20E:oyE_tuWGas4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/_e5Z796C20E" height="1" width="1"/ More...