Springboks: The ‘credit’ Rassie Erasmus has for World Rugby and his apology for ‘maybe using my words wrongly at the press conference’

Springboks boss Rassie Erasmus has given World Rugby kudos for improving the way the game is played at Test level.

A new international era for the sport began with last Saturday’s opening round of the Nations Championship, and across the six matches, there were 54 tries and an overall points total of 381.

One industrious platform for several of those tries was the maul. There were seven directly scored from that facet of play, including one from South Africa’s Malcolm Marx versus England.

Several other tries came in the first or second phase after the maul, such as the move Cam