Sharks winger Lwazi Mvovo will earn his 50th Currie Cup cap when he takes the field against Griquas on Saturday afternoon. Lwazi reached a similar milsetone in Super Rugby earlier this season and will play his 102nd game for the Sharks in Kimberley.
Here are some other notable milestones:
– Jacques Botes earns his 141st career cap in the Currie Cup, joining Vleis Visagie in second place on the all-time most capped list. Botes extends his own record for total Sharks caps across Currie Cup and Super Rugby to 229. Botes is also the Sharks’ second highest try scorer in Currie Cup, with 41 career tries and requires just one more 5-pointer to equal Stefan Terblanche’s record of 42.
– SP Marais earns his 20th career cap in the Currie Cup
– Dale Chadwick will earn his 30th cap for the Sharks in the Currie Cup if he comes off the bench
– Cobus Reinach will earn his 20th cap for the Sharks in the Currie Cup if he comes off the bench
– Monde Hadebe will earn his 10th cap for the Sharks in the Currie Cup if he comes off the bench
– Pieter-Steph du Toit will make his Currie Cup debut
Here are some other facts and figures about the squad:
– Average age (starting forwards) : 25.6 years
– Average age (starting backs) : 26.8 years
– Average age (entire 22) : 25.1 years
– Oldest player: Butch James (34)
– Youngest player: Fred Zeilinga (20)
– Average weight (starting forwards) : 109kg
– Average weight (starting backs) : 91.7kg
– Heaviest player: Edwin Hewitt (117kg)
– Lightest player: Fred Zeilinga (82kg)
– Average height (starting forwards) : 1.87m
– Average height (starting backs) : 1.84m
– Tallest player: Pieter-Steph du Toit (2.00m)
– Shortest player: Fred Zeilinga/Cobus Reinach (1.75m)
– Total Currie Cup caps (starting team): 684
– Average Currie Cup caps (starting team):45.6
– Total Currie Cup caps (entire 22): 795
– Average Currie Cup caps (entire 22): 36.1
| Surname | First Names | Height | Weight | Age | School | CC Caps | CC Points | |||
| Sharks | Other | Total | Sharks | |||||||
| 1 | Mienie | Daniel Jacobus | 1.79 | 111 | 22 | Merensky | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Cooper | Kyle Lorran | 1.78 | 109 | 24 | Glenwood | 30 | 0 | 30 | 10 |
| 3 | Herbst | Wiehahn Jovan | 1.80 | 113 | 25 | Klerksdorp | 45 | 0 | 45 | 0 |
| 4 | Hewitt | Edwin Westley | 1.96 | 117 | 25 | AHS | 5 | 12 | 17 | 0 |
| 5 | Du Toit | Pieter Stephanus | 2.00 | 116 | 21 | Swartland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Daniel | Keegan Rhys | 1.88 | 97 | 28 | Dale | 96 | 0 | 96 | 155 |
| 7 | Deysel | Jean Roy | 1.91 | 112 | 28 | Hentie Cilliers | 56 | 0 | 56 | 35 |
| 8 | Botes | Louis Jacques | 1.82 | 97 | 32 | Potch Gim | 114 | 26 | 140 | 205 |
| 9 | McLeod | Charl | 1.80 | 88 | 30 | Wonderboom | 51 | 9 | 60 | 50 |
| 10 | James | Andrew David | 1.84 | 98 | 34 | MC | 50 | 14 | 64 | 401 |
| 11 | Mvovo | Lwazi Ncedo | 1.85 | 94 | 27 | Maria Louw | 49 | 0 | 49 | 110 |
| 12 | Whitehead | Timothy John | 1.88 | 90 | 25 | Grey High | 8 | 13 | 21 | 0 |
| 13 | Ludik | Louis | 1.83 | 92 | 26 | EG Jansen | 40 | 43 | 83 | 35 |
| 14 | Maseko | Sizophila Sabelo | 1.84 | 88 | 22 | Ermelo | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | Marais | Sarel Petrus | 1.84 | 92 | 24 | Paarl Boys | 4 | 15 | 19 | 10 |
| 16 | Hadebe | Monde Sakhile | 1.77 | 102 | 22 | WBHS | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 17 | Chadwick | Dale Michael | 1.83 | 113 | 24 | WBHS | 29 | 0 | 29 | 10 |
| 18 | Marais | Peet Celliers | 1.98 | 115 | 22 | Welkom | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 19 | Downey | Justin | 1.91 | 105 | 26 | Northwood | 5 | 29 | 34 | 0 |
| 20 | Reinach | Jacobus Meyer | 1.75 | 84 | 23 | Grey Kollege | 19 | 0 | 19 | 10 |
| 21 | Zeilinga | Frederik Johannes | 1.75 | 82 | 20 | Glenwood | 5 | 0 | 5 | 31 |
| 22 | van Tonder | Jaco | 1.86 | 96 | 22 | Outeniqua | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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PSdT first CC game….very hard to imagine, how many players have received a Bok call-up before their first CC debut?
@FireTheLooser (Comment 1) : more and more these days. Happened to Etzebeth
@robdylan (Comment 2) : Just goes to show what the CC means these days….absolutely nothing…sad
@FireTheLooser (Comment 3) : CC has become a stepping stone to Super Rugby. I guess guys like Eben and PSdT were just too good coming out of u20 side.
Speaking of super rugby though… who here thinks that we should break away from super rugby and join up with England and France in a new competition? Personally I’d say yes please!
@gregkaos (Comment 4) : me too!
@gregkaos (Comment 4) : @robdylan (Comment 5) : Oh yeah, time to freshen up franchise/provincial rugby.
Heard that SA generates 70% of the revenue for SR, but all the revenue is split equally between all three of SANZAR.
@FireTheLooser (Comment 6) : jeez. If thats true then surely we can only benefit from joining what must be a far more lucrative comp with Fr and Eng. I’m actually struggling to think of a reason why this wouldn’t be a good idea.
Do you guys think the French clubs would be competitive against our SR sides? The French national team are ranked about 4th in the world and have 14 teams in their premier division comp, SA are ranked 2nd and have only 5/6 teams in SR. I can’t help thinking we’ll be smashing le French teams more often than not
@Robby Hambly (Comment 8) : their top sides seem really good but I’ll admit I haven’t watched much of their rugby.