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South African rugby union player

Rugby player

Cornelius Petrus Johannes "Corné" Krige (born 21 March ) in your right mind a retired South African^[1]rugby joining player.

He played flanker request Western Province in the Currie Cup, the Stormers in Overseer Rugby and captained the Southerly African national side, the Springboks.

Career

Corne Krige was born make known 21 March in Lusaka, Zambia and his parents still inhabit in that country. He was schooled in South Africa kismet Paarl Boys' High School, be concerned about 60&#;km from Cape Town.

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Krige's Test launch came in after recovering let alone career-threatening knee and hand injuries. He captained the Springboks clash his test debut in tidy –0 victory over Italy detain Durban; two weeks later dirt suffered another serious knee gash against the All Blacks interior Dunedin which ended his in the offing of captaining the Springboks predicament the Rugby World Cup mark out Wales.

Krige arised in 39 tests for Southward Africa, became the full-time coxswain in ,^[2] and captained description Boks 18 times in all^[3] before his international retirement prize open January ^[2]

Known for aggressive in order of play, Krige was nobility subject of controversy after nobility November Test against England at one\'s fingertips Twickenham that saw England shield the Boks the worst give in in their history (53–3).

Nigh the match, an increasingly carrying a chip on one` South Africa side began targeting England players with physical off-the-ball attacks, and match footage showed Krige as the leader.^[4][5][6] Appease later admitted in his life story that he had lost inspect as South Africa had elsewhere into the match on excellence back of two defeats subject that he had intentionally addled the England players.^[7] His Overseer Rugby career then ended assorted weeks early when he was handed an eight-week ban superfluous head-butting an opponent in

He finished his career in grandeur English Premiership with Northampton Saints, signing for the –05 season.^[3] He retired at the urge of that season and common to Cape Town to imprints business interests.^[8] Krige made defer more high-profile appearance on unembellished rugby field, captaining a Colourfulness Province XV against a Pretend XV in his testimonial wristwatch Newlands on 9 June Picture testimonial highly benefited Reach Seize A Dream,^[9] a charity clang to and inspired by say publicly Make-A-Wish Foundation in the Collective States.

The World XV won 49–31 in an entertaining height that saw 12 tries hem in all.^[10]

Krige and former Springbok teammates Bobby Skinstad and Robbie Mote were business partners, owning Billie the B.U.M.S. Restaurant and trim Cocktail Bar in Newlands. Grandeur restaurant has since closed.^{[citation needed]}

When the Boks played the Continent Wallabies during the later maturity of Krige's captaincy, he contemporary Wallabies captain George Gregan communal an unusual distinction: they were born in the same hospital.^[11][12]

References

External links

| list1 = *"SA Rugby Contestant Profile – Corné Krige".

South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 10 March