Malherbe

Stormers lost South Africa prop Frans Malherbe to the sin-bin before the break and Sale responded with intensity after the interval, but James could not catch a perfectly-weighted cross-field kick from his midfield partner Sam Bedlow, for what would surely have been Sale's passage back into the game.

Paarl Boys' High School are one the powerhouses of schoolboy rugby in South Africa, drawing in a crowd of 25,000 last year for a match against rivals Paarl Gimnasium, and helped develop current Springboks props Thomas du Toit and Frans Malherbe.

The starting front row of Tendai Mtawarira, Bongi Mbonambi and Malherbe were replaced - aside from unplanned injuries - early in each second half by Malcolm Marx, Steven Kitshoff and Vincent Koch in their knockout victories over Japan, Wales and England.

In this study, Malherbe and colleagues investigated whether chimpanzees share this feature by examining how chimps develop tool techniques as they age.

Of the eight forwards that began the 2019 final, six of them lined up from the start against France; Bongi Mbonambi, Frans Malherbe, Eben Etzebeth, Siya Kolisi, Pieter-Steph du Toit and Duane Vermeulen.