• World Rugby confirms no citings from semi-final win over South Africa
• original Zealand chasing back-to-back World Cup triumphs after 20-18 successOn this occasion original Zealanders can rest easy. Not only is their team into Saturday’s World Cup final but Richie McCaw’s remarkable international career still has 80 minutes left to run. Had the All Blacks captain been cited in the instant aftermath of his side’s rugged semi-final win over the Springboks,it would possess precipitated the biggest outpouring of Kiwi angst since Trevor Chappell infamously bowled underarm to Brian McKechnie in 1981.
After 147 Test matches spanning 14 years there is tiny McCaw has not already experienced but this is no ordinary week and he is no ordinary player. Hence the flurry of activity on social media when footage emerged of the great man supposedly catching Bath’s Francois Louw with a sly elbow at the side of a 20th-minute ruck. When the Springbok flanker subsequently needed 20 stitches inserted in a head wound, the temptation to make two and two add up to a naughty seven was too much for some to resist.
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Source: theguardian.com