BRENDAN GALLAGHER
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FEW players get to announce their retirement off the back of possibly a career best, World Cup- winning, performance but that is the happy place Tendai Mtawarira finds himself occupying this week as he enjoys the Springboks’ trophy tour of the Rainbow Nation.
The Beast, 34, is stepping down from Test rugby after 117 caps, a mighty career which will also be celebrated in his native Zimbabwe where, as a star player with Churchill School and the elite Peterhouse College, he is undoubtedly their greatest rugby prod...