By NICK POWELL

BRENDAN Venter feels South Africa benefited from huge amounts of good fortune on their way to winning a fourth World Cup title. Venter, a 1995 World Cup winner with South Africa and former Springboks defence coach, cites factors that took his country over the line in all three of the knockout games, each won by a single point against France, England and New Zealand. “When we saw the way this World Cup was set up, and some friends asked me what I thought, I just said: ‘Basically, the team that’s going to win will need a load of luck,’...