Benade

Pumas flyhalf Jacques Benade had given his side the early lead with a third-minute drop goal, and the match remained an evenly-contested one into halftime. But a shift in mindset from the Lions and a crucial injury blow to the Pumas turned the game around.

Benade, 31, last season played for the Natal Sharks in the Super 12, as Henry Honiball's replacement, and in the Currie Cup forthe Mpumalanga Pumas, scoring 300 points in eighteen games. Big and powerful, at 95 Kg and 184 cm, Benade in 1995 scored ...