British and Irish Lions number eight Taulupe Faletau (right) is tackled during a tour match against South Africa A in Cape Town on Wednesday.
CAPE TOWN: The British and Irish Lions suffered a first loss on tour when they went down 17-13 to South Africa A in a full-blooded contest at Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday.
Trailing by 14 points at half-time, the tourists scored 10 unanswered points in the second half, but a Zander Fagerson knock-on in the final minute cost them a chance to snatch victory.
A Springbok-packed South Africa A side won despite being temporarily reduced to 13 men just before half-time when scrum-half Faf de Klerk and flanker Marco van Staden were sin-binned.
Before the kick-off, Lions captain and scrum-half Conor Murray called the fourth match of the Lions tour a “fourth Test” given the…
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