Serin’s late try can’t stop the Boks narrow win

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By LUKE JARMYN

IN A GAME between two under-performing sides it would have been asking a lot for this to be a stand-out game and so it proved in a scrappy, tight affair at the Stade de France.
Two tries by wing Dillyn Leyds and outside centre Jesse Kriel gave the Boks a narrow win but despite France’s ill-discipline the South Africans failed to stamp their authority, while fly-half Handre Pollard missed three penalty-kicks in a row.
The Boks started the game strongly and a break by Pollard led to 14 phases before No. 8 Duane Vermeulen passed to fly-half Handre Pollard, who found Dill...

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