Wales suffer heavy Nations Championship defeat against seven-try South Africa

Wales failed to score a single point once more against South Africa as the Springboks ran out convincing 43-0 Nations Championship winners in Durban.

South Africa won their previous meeting 73-0 in November when Wales, without England and France-based players in a Test played outside World Rugby’s official window, conceded 11 tries and suffered their heaviest home defeat.

The world champions were nowhere near as ruthless on home soil, but still scored seven tries with Jasper Wiese, Cobus Reinach, Jesse Kriel, Jaco Williams, Herschel Jantjies, Kurt-Lee Arendse and Paul de Villiers crossing.

New boy Vusi Moyo and Marnie Libbok kicked four conversions between them.

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Wales could actually call on more caps and experience in the two starting line-ups but were simply unable to combat South Africa’s power game.

This was the Springboks’ 11th consecutive win and their third in the Nations Championship after victories over England and Scotland to take them top of the Southern Section.

Wales were forced into a late change as Josh Adams was ruled out by a calf injury and replaced on the wing by Ellis Mee.

The writing was on the wall in the opening exchanges as Wales fell off tackles in the same fashion as they had done in Argentina the previous week.

Wiese barged through inside five minutes and the Springboks soon set up another attacking position as the Wales scrum retreated at a furious pace.

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Reinach darted to the right from another dominant scrum and Moyo landed his second conversion to settle his early nerves.

The game was being played almost entirely in the Wales half, but handling