Every Monday we bring you some of the sports highlights from the weekend.
Cricket:
• Kagiso Rabada and Dane van Niekerk won the South Africa">Cricket South Africa Men and Women’s Player of the Year respectively.
• England leveled the series 1 – 1 following their 55 runs and an innings victory over Pakistan on Day 3 in the second Test.
Tennis:
S. Stephens beat A. Kontaveit 6-2 6-0
M. Keys beat M. Buzarnescu 6-1 6-4
N. Djockovic beat F. Verdasco 6-3 6-4 6-2
D. Thiem beat K. Nishikori 6-2 6-0 7-5 6-4
A. Zverev beat K. Khachanov 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-3 6-3
Football:
• Bafana Bafana">Bafana Bafana were knocked out of the Cosafa Cup, after losing to Madagascar on penalties (4-3) on Sunday.
Rugby:
• Sevens – Blitzbokke suffered a 21 – 17 loss to Fiji in the London Sevens Series Final on Sunday.
• Wales 22 – 20 Springboks
• Super Rugby: Brumbies 41 – 31 Sunwolves, Reds 41 – 52 Waratahs, Chiefs 20 – 34 Crusaders
• U/20 World Cup: South Africa 30 – 17 Ireland, New Zealand 42 – 10 Wales, England 43 – 5 Italy, Australia 54 – 19 Japan
Athletics:
Great performances by the SA contingent at the Diamond League in Rome:
• Long jump – 1st Luvo Manyonga 8.58m; 3rd Ruswahl Samaai 8.34m
• 100m – 5th Akani Simbine 10.13
