Wales ‘will leave it all out there’ as they chase historic South Africa series win

Dan Biggar has stated that Wales will “give absolutely everything” in pursuit of a Test series triumph against the world champions, South Africa, that appeared inconceivable three weeks ago.

Biggar admitted Wales would “probably have been laughed out of town” had such a possibly even been suggested before the series began. But after losing narrowly to South Africa in the opener and bouncing back to tie things up last weekend, a titanic Test trilogy reaches its climax on Saturday.

Cape Town’s DHL Stadium and an expected 55,000 capacity crowd will witness Wales’ bid to shred international rugby’s form-book beyond recognition 14 months before the World Cup. It is only 17 weeks since Wayne Pivac’s team lost at home to regular Six Nations wooden spoonists Italy, while they had won only four of 12 games before departing Heathrow – beating Canada, Fiji, Australia and Scotland.

“It is a great opportunity on Saturday for us to win a series here,” Biggar, the Wales captain, said. “I think if we had said that four or five weeks ago before we flew, we would probably have been laughed out of town if I had said that in front of you.

“We have put a huge amount into this tour as a group in terms of the amount of training we’ve done and the sacrifices we have made. We know this is our last week of the season, so we can go out and give absolutely everything and leave it all out there.”

Central to Wales’ success has been an approach – driven relentlessly by an inspired Biggar – to confront the Springboks in every area. And it has left South Africa, noted exponents of an ultra-physical outlook, rattled at times.

Biggar added: “I have really enjoyed that side of it because that’s what Test match rugby is about. We certainly didn’t want to