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Cape Town — Rassie Erasmus praised the Springboks’ growing maturity following their hard-fought 26-20 victory over a very good Scotland team in front of a capacity crowd at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on Saturday evening.

The South Africans held a small half-time lead (20-17) over the enterprising Scots after a thrilling opening half, which saw both sides displaying some good attacking rugby.

Two well-taken penalty goals in the second half, one each by Handré Pollard and Elton Jantjies, eventually clinched the match for the Springboks.

Pollard scored 18 points from a try, two conversions and three penalty goals, to help steer the result in the South Africans’ favour.

Pollard was named Man of the Match and in the process moved into third position on the all-time Springbok points’ scoring list with 336 Test points, surpassing top try scorer Bryan Habana’s 335.

Sport24