WATCH: Highlights of all Rugby World Cup warm-up Tests (5 August)

With just over a month to go to the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, we bring you all the weekly high- and lowlights from the warm-up Tests leading up to the global showpiece. 

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After several training camps which focused primarily on strength and conditioning, team dynamics and combinations, player improvement and development and opposition analysis; attention finally shifts from practice fields to proper Test competition, as teams look to sharpen up before the World Cup kicks off. 

Below, The South African compiled a video catalogue of highlights from all the Rugby World Cup warm-up Tests played on Saturday, 5 August.

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RUGBY WORLD CUP TEST WARM-UP HIGHLIGHTS

All Blacks beat Wallabies 23-20 (Forsyth Stadium, Dunedin) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtYw86-aB0

Argentina lost 13-24 to the Springboks (Buenos Aires)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISr-aQ-RIw

Scotland beat France 25-21 (Murrayfield, Edinburgh) 

Wales beat England 20-9 (Millennium Stadium, Cardiff)

Ireland beat Italy 33-17 (Aviva Stadium, Dublin)

Romania lost 17-31 to USA (Bucharest)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS8vGoEHsus

Uruguay beat Namibia 26-18 (Montevideo)

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UPCOMING RWC WARM-UP FIXTURES

10 August 

— Tonga vs Canada (Nuku’alofa)

12 August 

— England vs Wales (Twickenham, London)
— France vs Scotland (Saint-Etienne)
— Georgia vs Romania (Tbilisi)
— Chile vs Namibia (Valparaiso)
— Portugal vs USA (Algarve)

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15 August 

— Tonga vs Canada (Nuku’alofa)

18 August 

— Samoa vs Barbarians (Brive)
— Uruguay vs Argentina XV (Montevideo)

19 August 

— Wales vs Springboks (Millennium Stadium, Cardiff), 4:15pm
— Ireland vs England (Aviva Stadium, Dublin)
— Georgia vs USA (Tbilisi)
— Italy vs Romania (San Benedetto del Tronto)
— France vs Fiji (Nantes)

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25 August 

— All Blacks vs Springboks (Twickenham, London)

26 August 

— England vs Fiji (Twickenham, London)
— Italy vs Japan (Treviso)
— Scotland vs Georgia (Murrayfield, Edinburgh)
— Portugal vs Australia A (Brou-sur-Chantereine)
— Argentina vs Spain (Madrid)
— Ireland vs Samoa (Bayonne)
— Chile vs Argentina XV (Temuco)
— Namibia vs Bulls (Windhoek)

27 August 

— France vs Australia (Stade de France, Paris)

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THE 2023 RWC MATCH SCHEDULE