They wrote: "The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the 2020 rugby calendar into disarray and left the sport's top brass scrambling for ideas and proposals to ensure the year has some sort of value. It was picked on the form horses in international rugby and their team features six Springboks, five All Blacks, three Englishmen, one Fijian - with their solitary Welsh representative coming in on the replacements bench. Yet all their efforts in the Land of the Rising Sun in taking the 'Boks all the way to the end looks to have been largely forgotten in the mists of time when South African media outlet Sport 24 came up with their World XV of the past year. Wales' 19-16 loss in the Yokohama Stadium semi-final was gut-wrenching and a titanic tussle, one which could well have seen the 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam champions lining up against Eddie Jones' England in the final, and not Rassie Erasmus' South Africans. They came closest to stopping the Springboks powering their way to the 2019 Rugby World Cup back in Japan last autumn.
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