Beale blunder costs Wallabies against Boks
Kurtley Beale has done his best to recover from a first-minute brain explosion, but it wasn’t enough to stem the bleeding as the struggling Wallabies fell 23-12 to the Springboks in Port Elizabeth.
Murray Wenzel
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