South Africa's World Cup-winning captain, John Smit, believes that his former Saracens’ team-mates, fellow hookers, Schalk Brits and Jamie George, will have a ‘master and apprentice battle with edge’, as they look to come out on top for, respectively, the Springboks and England. The shock call-up for Brits on Monday has led to the ‘unique’ situation as Smit sees it of two players who are ‘more like family than team-mates’, possibly going head-to-head either in the second Test in Bloemfontein on Saturday or in Cape Town seven days later.
“It will be like two brother scrapping in the backyard for the bragging rights,” Smith told The Telegraph. “There will be no needle between then because they...