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Despite the Springboks’ recent struggles against the All Blacks, there is one quirky statistic the South Africans can lay claim to.

That is that no All Black has ever scored a hat-trick of tries in a test against the Springboks.

That is quite something, considering hat-trick hauls or better have been managed by the All Black against all nations faced apart from the World XV (only three test matches played), Namibia (two), the Pacific Islanders (one) and Portugal (one).

The Springboks, meanwhile, have twice had players notch hat-tricks against the All Blacks.

Winger Ray Mordt did so in a 25-22 loss in the infamous, flourbombing 1981 test at Eden Park, while centre Marius Joubert was the other to do so, in a 40-26 win at Ellis Park in 2004.

Table: Felippe Rodrigues • Source: All Blacks

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