Commonwealth Games Sevens: WHEN you can watch the Blitzboks in semi-final action

The Springbok Sevens were in firm control throughout their Commonwealth Games quarter-final on Saturday evening as they beat Canada 33-0 to advance into the semi-finals where they will meet Australia at 14:04 (SA time) on Sunday at the Coventry Stadium in Birmingham.

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They will be without Siviwe Soyizwapi though, as the SA captain’s tournament was cut short after he was injured against Scotland earlier on Saturday – a match the Blitzboks won 34-0.

Meanwhile, the Springbok Women’s Sevens side will face Sri Lanka at 19:00 (SA time) on Sunday evening in the seventh-place playoff.

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Zain Davids, who took over the captaincy in the quarter-final from Soyizwapi, said: “We will always be happy with a victory, especially as we stuck to our processes, defended well and we also did our basics well, so I think we can be happy.

“Losing ‘Shakes’ is not great – he is a proper leader who leads from the front and never gives up, the players really look up to him and we realise we have big shoes to fill, but we will try and do that for Siviwe.”

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On their semi-final opponent, Australia – who beat Samoa 7-0 in their quarter-final – Davids said they will approach it as any other game.

“It doesn’t matter who we play, for us it’s ‘game five on day three’ and our focus will be on sticking to our processes and getting our basics right.”

Against Canada on Saturday evening, three first-half tries – by Ronald Brown, Christie Grobbelaar and Angelo Davids – set up a 21-0 lead at the break, with Angelo Davids’s intercept-try from 80m out – while Brown was in the sin-bin for a high tackle – summing up the SA team’s dominance.

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The Canadians tried hard, but defensive pressure from SA saw them make a number of unforced errors, which the Blitzboks pounced on with gratitude. Brown got his second try not long after returning to the field shortly after the break, scoring from a Canadian mistake to stretch the lead to 26-0.

Mfundo Ndhlovu, who was declared fit after taking a heavy knock on the first day, also got his name on the score sheet with just over a minute left in the game.

The first semi-final in the men’s competition kicks off at 13:42, with defending champions New Zealand taking on Fiji.

TEAM SA’S COMMONWEALTH GAMES SCHEDULE – DAY 3

Team SA will be in action in 10 different sports on Sunday’s Day 3 of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

NOTE: All times are local (for SA times add one hour).

5 THINGS TO WATCH

Commonwealth and Olympic swimming champion Tatjana Schoenmaker goes for gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final

Team SA’s men’s Rugby Sevens have a semi-final against Australia and will be favourites to contest the gold medal match

Chad Le Clos will be looking to win 200m butterfly gold 10 years to the day that he beat Michael Phelps to win the Olympic gold medal in London

South Africa’s netballers will be determined to beat Barbados in style and make up for the disappointment of losing to Jamaica on Saturday

Caitlin Rooskrantz and Naveen Daries take part in the women’s individual all-round gymnastics final

BADMINTON
Mixed Team, quarter-final: Jarred Elliott, Caden Kakora, Robert Summers, Deidre Jordaan and Johanna Scholtz vs India

BOXING
8.15pm Men’s middleweight (75kg): Simnikiwe Bongco vs Foday Badjie (Gambia)

GYMNASTICS
9am Men’s All-Round final: Muhammad Khaalid
2.30pm Women’s All-Round final: Caitlin Rooskrantz, Naveen Daries

LAWN BOWLS
3pm Para Men’s Pairs B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Willem Viljoen and Deon van der Vyver vs England
3pm Women’s Fours, quarter-finals: Johanna Snyman, Esme Kruger, Bridgit Calitz and Thabelo Muvhango vs England
3pm Para Women’s Pairs B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Desiree Levin and Victoria van der Merwe vs New Zealand
6pm Men’s Pairs, quarter-final D: Prince Nelounde, Wayne Rittmuller vs TBD
6pm: Para Mixed Pairs, Section A, Round 1: Tracy Smith, Thomas Smith, Hermanus Scholtz and Johanna van Rooyen vs Scotland

NETBALL
2pm SA vs Barbados

RUGBY SEVENS
1.04pm Men’s semi-finals: vs Australia
6pm Playoff for 7th and 8th: Women’s Sevens vs Sri Lanka
8.12pm: playoff for bronze
9.04pm: Men’s gold medal

SWIMMING
10.37am Men’s 200m butterfly, heat 3: Chad Le Clos
10.41am Women’s 200m breaststroke, heat 1: Kaylene Corbett
10.46am Women’s 200m breaststroke, heat 2: Tatjana Schoenmaker
10.59am Men’s 50m backstroke, heat 5: Pieter Coetze
11.11am Women’s 50m butterfly, heat 5: Rebecca Meder
11.15am Women’s 50m butterfly, heat 7: Erin Gallagher, Trinity Hearne
11.31am Men’s 100m freestyle, heat 7: Matt Sates, Guy Brooks
11.35am Men’s 100m freestyle, heat 9: Pieter Coetze

7.28pm Men’s 200m butterfly, final: Chad Le Clos
7.42pm Men’s SB8 100m breaststroke, final: Christian Sadie
8.05pm Women’s 50m freestyle, final: Erin Gallagher, Emma Chelius
8.22pm: Women’s 200m breaststroke, final: Tatjana Schoenmaker, Kaylene Corbett
8.45pm Women’s 100m backstroke, final: Rebecca Meder
8.51pm: Men’s 100m breaststroke, final: Brenden Crawford
9.13pm: Women’s 4x200m freestyle, final (from Aimee Canny, Dune Coetzee, Erin Gallagher, Michaela Pulford and Rebecca Meder)

TRIATHLON
11.01am Men’s PTVI final: David Jones, Gavin Kilpatrick
11.06am Women’s PTVI final: Linsay Engelbrecht
2.31pm Mixed Team Relay final

WEIGHTLIFTING
2pm Women’s 59kg: Anneke Spies
6.30pm Men’s 73kg: Jon-Antohein Phillips

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL
4.29pm Men’s Group A: SA vs Malaysia
(Allen Mtatase, Cecil Dumond, Ayabonga Jim and Simanga Mbhele)
8.50pm: Women’s Group B: SA vs Australia
(Aviwe Ngoni, Samkelisiwe Mbatha, Michelle Moganedi and Kelebogile Moeng)