A last moment try by Sibusiso Sithole won the South African sevens rugby team the Emirates Airline Edinburgh Sevens final yesterday. One commentator called it the greatest game he’s ever seen and many are calling it the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Everything seemed to be against us when we lost three players, including captain Kyle Brown before the game, and Paul Delport during the match. We looked pretty much as dead as a dying dog moments before it became as dead as a dead dog.

The Boks’ game wasn’t looking very good just before the end of the first half, but we seemed to be back in it when we scored, reaching 14-7. But a long-range try to Jonathan Lance, making the score 21-7, left the team feeling very dejected going into the break. Then when we conceded a try from the kick-off to make it 28-7, things looked really really bad. With three minutes to play and the score at 35-7, things looked so bad that Microsoft Word wouldn’t let me type “really” three times in a row.

But then from the kick-off, the Boks won the ball and sent Steven Hunt sprinting down the sideline to score. Amazingly, we went about repeating the same thing after the next kick-off, as Hunt ran in another try for his hat-trick.

Time was up when Sibusiso Sithole received a pass from Frankie Horne. A sprint down the sideline and a hand-off later and we were champions of Scotland. Australia were champions of humiliation and order was restored to the universe.

[Source : Supersport]