Bok kit blues: World champs forced to play in alternative strip at World Cup

When the Springboks play the All Blacks in London next week, it will be in their traditional green and gold jerseys, but the world champions will face kit issues at the Rugby World Cup.

Next Friday's game (25 August) against New Zealand doesn't fall under World Rugby regulations.

However, for their World Cup games the Boks will play in an assortment of colours, according to Rapport, to accommodate World Rugby's inclusivity regulations relating to those with colour vision deficiency (CVD) - or colour blindness - for the tournament.

In their World Cup opener against Scotland in Marseille on 10 September, the Boks will play in their hype jade strip as they are Team B. When the two nations met in the 2015 World Cup in Newcastle, the Boks wore white and green with Scotland in their home strip.

Scotland, ostensibly, will be playing in their normal navy-blue strip, which, in the past, has clashed with the Boks' home kit.

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When the sides met in 2013, 2018 and 2021 at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, the Boks were in their home strip while the Scots were in their change strip.

When the Boks hosted Scotland in Mbombela in 2013, a game that marked Siya Kolisi's famed Test debut, the Boks were in their change strip, the first time in the professional era that the sides dipped into the change strip art when playing against each other. 

However, when the teams met at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha in 2014, a Test match that marked the international bow of Handre Pollard, both teams played in their home strips in a similar manner to the 2003 and 2006 matches in South Africa.

The same applied when the sides met at Murrayfield in 2010 when the teams also played in their home kits, and it was also the case in the 1999