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Peter Jackson: All Blacks v Springboks – The thrilling series that will grip the rugby world

Peter Jackson says the return of a four-Test series between South Africa and New Zealand is the blockbuster rugby has been missing – and one that will captivate fans around the world.
South Africa celebrate victory over New Zealand in the World Cup Final

 

The last four-Test series ended at Eden Park on July 16, 1983 when the Lions disappeared without trace, exactly as Shergar had done rather more ominously a few months earlier.
The next one kicks off this month; four Tests on successive Saturdays between the perennial superpowers of the game, a quadruple whammy of magnetic appeal made all the more since the Nations Championship declared such a fixture out of bounds.
New Zealand’s eight-match tour of South Africa starts in Cape Town on Friday under the banner of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry, a title whose accuracy cannot be questioned for a whol...

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