Springboks retained Rugby World Cup in France last month‘Australia are a weird bunch – in a good way,’ says Klaasen
World Cup semi-finals are supposedly nervous affairs but a day out from South Africa’s encounter with Australia at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Heinrich Klaasen, their middle-order powerhouse, is happily discussing his team’s underwear.
It is a fair old tangent, prompted by the Springboks side that recently became the first team to successfully defend the men’s Rugby World Cup. Klaasen played plenty of cricket against their feisty scrum-half, Faf de Klerk, back in the day, leading to a cheeky question of whether he, like De Klerk, owns a pair of South African flag budgie smugglers.
“Haha, no, I’m not that type of guy,” says Klaasen, whose personal campaign to date included that brutal 109 against England in the tandoor-like heat of Mumbai. “But some of the guys do; there’s definitely a couple of pairs floating around the dressing room.
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