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FACTS, STATS & TRIVIA SIMPLY SUPERIOR!
Cell C Sharks and Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth was this week named SA Rugby's Player of the Year for 2022. His stats and performances, in black, as well as green and gold, suggest there could have been only one winner.
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* Etzebeth, at 30 years of age, became the youngest Springbok player to achieve a century of test caps for South Africa - against Wales on July 16, last year - and he celebrated the occasion with a Man-of-theMatch performance.
* He is the fifth most-capped Bok of all time with 110 caps, and the second most-capped Bok lock after Victor Matfield.
* Of his 110 tests, 31 were consecutive, from 2014 tot 2016, which are the fifth most consecutive Bok caps of all time.
* Etzebeth also claimed the Man-of-the-Match award last October in his debut for the Cell C Sharks against the Glasgow Warriors.
* He currently tops the URC Top 100, a player ranking system that combines recent performances across the United Rugby Championship, EPCR competi-tions and international rugby.
