Over the many years, the Springboks have been capable of name on the companies of a few of world rugby’s best gamers of all time.

It makes it an virtually unattainable job to attempt to choose a mixed line-up that may very well be thought-about the best all-time Springbok group.

Nonetheless, on this hypothetical content material piece, we choose our all-time Springbok greatest, having thought-about gamers from each technology.

Biggest Springbok all-time XV

 1.⁠ ⁠Beast Mtawarira
 2.⁠ ⁠Malcolm Marx
 3.⁠ ⁠Frans Malherbe
 4.⁠ ⁠Frik du Preez
 5.⁠ ⁠Victor Matfield
 6.⁠ ⁠Schalk Burger
 7.⁠ ⁠Pieter-Steph du Toit
 8.⁠ ⁠Duane Vermeulen
 9.⁠ ⁠Fourie du Preez
10.⁠ ⁠Naas Botha
11.⁠ ⁠Bryan Habana
12.⁠ ⁠Frans Steyn
13.⁠ ⁠Danie Gerber
14.⁠ ⁠Ray Mordt
15.⁠ ⁠HO de Villiers

Substitutes: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Os du Randt, 18 Hempies du Toit, 19 Eben Etzebeth, 20 Jan Ellis, 21 Hennie Muller, 22 Joost van der Westhuizen, 23 Cheslin Kolbe.

A combination of modern-day greats and a few icons of the previous, it is a group that will possess each tempo and energy in equal measures, to not point out a wholesome dose of X issue.

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