Springboks crush Wales 43-0 and stay unbeaten in Nations Championship

DURBAN, South Africa — South Africa put down Wales 43-0 and was three for three in Nations Championship rugby on Saturday.The Springboks struggled to reflect their utter domination on the scoreboard and ought to have doubled their seven actual tries by seven different scorers.A team of 10 changes with four debutants following the 42-28 win over Scotland was slick at times but frequently undone by knock-ons.But even ragged with a slippery ball, the Springboks still blanked Wales in successive matches for the first time since the first two matches in this rivalry, in 1906 and 1912.Wales was far stronger than the all-local team that was thrashed 73-0 by South Africa last November in Cardiff, and still outclassed. Wales hasn’t scored a point against the world champion Springboks in more than 2 1/2 hours.Only South Africa and New Zealand were unbeaten after the southern hemisphere leg of the new Nations Championship. The tournament takes a break to November when it will conclude in Europe.“I think we’ve got a little bit better in every game of the Nations Championship but as we’ve been rotating it does take cohesion away,” Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus said. “We saw world-class players make a few knocks-on in this game. The field is really slippery, and you could feel it in the warmup, that it was really greasy. It was tough to play an expansive, pretty game in (conditions) like that against a team that really wanted to defend.”Wales was the wooden spoon holder after the last two Six Nations and remained a work in progress. The defense missed 29 tackles against South Africa and missed 102 across all three Nations Championship fixtures this month.Wales was overpowered by Argentina last weekend in San Juan and was determined to front up at Kings Park against the most direct team in world rugby. But it was quickly apparent Wales couldn’t.Popular ReadsNo. 8 Jasper Wiese blew through Jac Morgan and Rhys Carre to score the opening try in the fifth minute. The Bok scrum, with new cap Ca …

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