Smith comes of age as England ride a Bok storm

From NICK CAIN at Twickenham

England ............27pts
Tries: Tuilagi 7, Steward 17, Quirke 65
Conversions: Smith 8, 18, 66
Penalties: Smith 24, 80

South Africa ....26pts
Tries: Mapimpi 69
Penalties: Pollard 14, 22, 26, 30, 55; E Jantjies 64; Steyn 73
THIS was a thunderous contest in which Marcus Smith came of age, leading a hell-forleather last ditch England attack, and then kicking the 79th minute penalty that it yielded to send a lightning bolt through the Springbok spoilers.
This time the 22-year-old Smith had no minders to help him work his way out of the chokehold that so...

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