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Wales suffer agony in Test match for the ages as excruciating turning point sees history slip away

Wales fell agonisingly short of a first ever win on South African soil in an astonishing Test match for the ages at Loftus Versfeld.

Wales went from looking likely winners to losers in the space of two and a half minutes at the end of a heart-stopping affair at altitude.

When replacement hooker Dewi Lake scored from a rolling maul late on, Dan Biggar had the chance to put the visitors 31-29 ahead from the conversion.

He missed what was a tough opportunity, but a draw looked like it had been secured at least – even though Wales were down to 13 men at that stage because of yellow cards.

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Then Biggar was penalised in injury-time for a deliberate knock-on of Willie le Roux’s pass and Bok full-back Damien Willemse landed a penalty that gave the world champions a victory they were mightily relieved to secure.

All this after two tries from wing Louis Rees-Zammit had helped craft an 18-3 lead for Wales at half-time.

While there was some praise for a Wales team whose chances had been totally written off beforehand, the frustration of getting so close and falling short was palpable.

When Dan Biggar’s third penalty put Wales 24-15 ahead in the 63rd minute, even those scarred by a thousand Welsh southern hemisphere hard-luck stories would have been starting to pace up and down.

Wales were in such a promising position – sound game-management and some rub of the green would surely get them home.

Alas, it was not to be.

It all turned sour in the 66th minute. Cheslin Kolbe gathered a cross-kick to dot down a try in the corner, full-back Damien Willemse converted but crucially, Alun Wyn Jones, who had replaced Adam Beard, was yellow-carded for being offside in the

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