World Cup semi-finals are supposedly nervous affairs but a day before South Africa’s encounter with Australia at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Heinrich Klaasen, their middle-order powerhouse, is happily discussing his team’s underwear.
It is a fair old tangent, prompted by the Springboks side that defended the men’s Rugby World Cup last month with victory over the All Blacks in Paris. Klaasen played plenty of cricket against their feisty scrum-half Faf de Klerk back in the day, leading to a cheeky question of whether he, like De Klerk, owns a pair of South African flag budgie smugglers.
