2025’s Best Bok Tests #4: The Sacha Show
by KickOff Rugby · KickOffKickOff Rugby continues its retrospective series, counting down the five most significant Test matches of the 2025 season. At number four, we revisit a humid evening in Durban where a new superstar etched his name in the record books.
- SA v Argentina Result: South Africa 67-30 Argentina (Rugby Championship)
Date: 27 September 2025
Venue: Kings Park, Durban
Attendance: 45 158
South Africa Captain: Siya Kolisi
Head Coach: Rassie Erasmus
Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia)
Having clawed their way back into the Rugby Championship, getting up off the canvas in Cape Town to beat Australia, it was a night that needed a statement from the Springboks, one that they emphatically delivered.
It will be a night long remembered as the 23-year-old Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu produced the kind of individual performance that people will talk about for decades.
A nervous start
The final scoreline doesn’t reveal how tense this match was in the opening stages. The first half was an arm-wrestle. Argentina fronting up the Springbok challenge and capitalising on early Bok indiscipline, with Santiago Carreras keeping the scoreboard ticking over.
The Boks only holding an uncomfortable 25-23 lead at halftime.
Then came the second half, and with it, the "Sacha Show."
Feinberg-Mngomezulu, playing with a freedom that belied the pressure of the occasion, tore the game open. The young flyhalf crossed the whitewash three times, securing a sensational hat-trick. But it was his boot that helped etch his name into the history books. With 8 conversions and 2 penalties to go with his tries, he tallied a massive 37 points.
In doing so, he surpassed Percy Montgomery's long-standing record of 35 points in a single Test match, set back in 2007.
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A team firing on all cylinders
While the flyhalf stole the headlines, the pack laid the platform. Pieter-Steph du Toit was his usual tireless self, grabbing a brace of tries, while Malcolm Marx and Cheslin Kolbe also added their names to the scoresheet.
The final score of 67-30 reflected a team that had found its ruthless streak.
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