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Enable Cookies<\/a> But the result only papered over a performance that was blighted by ill-discipline, three yellow cards, and a struggling set-piece.<\/p>\n They overcame those with six tries to three by the Stormers in front of a 47,130 crowd.<\/p>\n Image: The good news for the All Blacks was they appeared to finish with no major injuries, seven players made their first appearance in the black jersey this year, and two more made their debuts off the bench; prop Siale Lauaki and inside back Josh Jacomb.<\/p>\n But the most impressive players in the stadium were Stormers fly-half Yaqeen Ahmed, who looked comfortably cool in his first-class debut at age 20, and flanker Deon Fourie, the dynamo who will be 40 next month.<\/p>\n “It was a good introduction for us to South African rugby,” said New Zealand head coach Dave Rennie. “We started \u200bvery well and it looked like which side had the ball \u2060got rewarded by the referee.<\/p>\n “When we had \u2060the ball we were really dangerous. We knew they would bring line speed [in defence]. We just weren’t quite clinical enough \u200cto expose them.<\/p>\n “They came at us with their set-piece and we need to be better in those areas. We expected a lot of aerial attacks and we probably did \u200cnot handle that as well as we could have.”<\/p>\n \n New Zealand’s 2026 tour of South Africa, live on Sky Sports\n <\/p>\n Friday August 7: Stormers 21-38 New Zealand, Cape Town<\/p>\n Tuesday August 11: Sharks vs New Zealand, Durban (6pm BST)<\/p>\n Saturday August 15: Bulls vs New Zealand, Pretoria (6pm BST)<\/p>\n Saturday August 22: South Africa vs New Zealand (FIRST TEST), Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg (4.10pm BST) <\/p>\n Tuesday August 25: Lions vs New Zealand, Johannesburg (6pm BST)<\/p>\n Saturday August 29: South Africa vs New Zealand (SECOND TEST), Cape Town (4.10pm BST) <\/p>\n Saturday September 5: South Africa vs New Zealand (THIRD TEST), FNB Stadium, Johannesburg (4.10pm BST) <\/p>\n Saturday September 12: South Africa vs New Zealand (FOURTH TEST), M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore USA (10pm BST) <\/p>\n Watch New Zealand’s Tour of South Africa live on Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand’s first full-scale tour of South Africa in 30 years began with an underwhelming 38-21 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-562166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n New Zealand started with an unconvincing win on their tour of South Africa <\/p>\n