wales last beat south africa in rugby in june 1999.
wales last beat south africa in rugby in june 1999.
when did wales last beat south africa in rugby?
june 1999
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in june 2012, zimbabwe beat south africa in a t20 match of an unofficial triangular t20 tournament where bangladesh national cricket team also featured. this was the 3rd match of the tournament. they beat south africa by 29 runs. they also had beaten bangladesh in the first match of that tournament by 10 runs. in the 3rd match against south africa, although there were no ab de villiers and jacques kallis, the south africa team were very much strong. winning the toss and electing to bat first, vusi sibanda and hamilton masakadza opened the innings and scored 58 and 55 respectively. the wicket keeper captain brendan taylor scored a quickfire 38 from 21 balls in the end. they scored 176/4 in 20 overs. coming to chase, south african batsmen richard levi and colin ingram scored 40 and 48 respectively. but the other batsmen struggle to make it and went all out on 147 within 19.2 overs. christopher mpofu took 3 for 20. in the next meetings with south africa and bangladesh, zimbabwe lost both of the matches and ended in the same points as those of south africa and bangladesh. due to better net run rates, zimbabwe and south africa progressed to the final. on 24 june 2012, in the final match, south africa batted first and scored 146 runs with the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. while an early collapse occurred in their innings, south africa managed to get back with a fair score as faf du plessis scored 66 off 57 balls and albie morkel scored a quickfire 34 not out off 23 balls. kyle jarvis of zimbabwe took 2 wickets for 22 runs. coming out to chase, zimbabwe started well but vusi sibanda went out on 24 off 16. but then the captain brendan taylor and hamilton masakadza well built the innings scoring 59 not out and 58 not out respectively. they took zimbabwe to victory as they scored 150 for the loss of 1 wicket in 17.1 overs. zimbabwe won by 9 wickets and clinched the t20 series in front of a full house packed with native zimbabwean crowd at the harare sports club ground. brendan taylor was the man of the match and hamilton masakadza got the man of the series award.
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