A highly influential and decorated Springbok is the only South African selected by supporters in a star-studded lineup.
In a best-of-the-best team sheet compiled by Ruck.co.uk, readers included multiple fellow World Cup winners and former World Player of the Year winners.
A Bok scrumming machine, 1995 and 2007 World Cup hero Os du Randt, packs down in the front row with legendary Kiwi Olo Brown and Irishman Keith Wood.
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Bok household names Bryan Habana, Joost van der Westhuizen, John Smit, Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and Francois Pienaar received honourable mentions but failed to crack the run-on XV.
All Blacks icon Jonah Lomu, Australian David Campese and Frenchman Serge Blanco are set to demolish defences as an explosive back three, with Jonny Wilkinson and Gareth Edwards calling the shots at halfback, while Brian O’Driscoll and Tim Horan link up in midfield.
Former England and Wallabies skippers Martin Johnson and John Eales slot into the second row, with Kiwis Richie McCaw and Zinzan Brooke combining with Englishman Richard Hill in the loose trio.
