After having been good value for their 22-10 halftime lead, the Sharks had two players yellow carded soon after each other. Just a minute into the second half, hooker Kerron van Vuuren was binned for a dangerous tackle and then five minutes later wing Madosh Tambwe was carded following multiple penalties against his team for offside.
The Rebels scored in that period when they had a two-man advantage, via No 8 Isi Naisarani, and at 22-17 it was game on. And the home team gained in confidence when the Sharks’ lineout that had been solid in the first half went to pieces. But the Sharks showed guts to hold the ball through a 19-phase passage of play that culminated in Makazole Mapimpi wrestling over for what the referee deemed a try when despite TV evidence suggesting the contrary.
It was a bit of fortune for the Sharks and with their tails up, they nailed the game when a breakout from the Sharks line by captain Andre Esterhuizen eventually saw Mapimpi stridingover the line only for him to selflessly hand the ball to Curwin Bosch for the try.
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