• Italian prop sent off for blatant tip tackle just after half-time• Wing Cheslin Kolbe scores two tries for rampant SpringboksSouth Africa ramped up the physicality to crush an
Italy side reduced to 14 men for most of the second half, moving above the Italians and
New Zealand to the top of Pool B.
The Springboks have never failed to reach the quarter-finals of the
World Cup and they all but erased that possibility at this tournament with a display of controlled brutality at Shizuoka Stadium. The ever-dangerous Cheslin Kolbe scored a try in each half and Bongi Mbonambi, Lukhanyo Am, Makazole Mapimpi, RG Snyman and Malcolm Marx also crossed to comfortably earn the 1995 and 2007 World Cup winners a bonus point.