The Sharks are the only South African team to have won a Super Rugby fixture in Christchurch in the past five years, but no domestic side has won a Super Rugby play-off in New Zealand. That is the scale of the challenge facing the Sharks in their Super Rugby quarterfinal against the Crusaders in Christchurch on Saturday. The Sharks have defeated three of the four New Zealand teams they have faced this season‚ but they did not play against the table-topping Crusaders. This knock-out game will serve as an accurate assessment of how decent or undercooked the Sharks have been. Consistency has not been a pillar on which the Sharks have built their season in 2018, but their captain, Ruan Botha, reckons they have an opportunity to create history even though they will have to pull off something South African teams have been unable to do in the 22-year existence of Super Rugby. "History is history. You write your own path. "There’s no team that’s going to go out there and arrive on history a...
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