Peter Jackson: Cake-fuelled Ox Nche brought English front row to its knees

Ox went to work on England’s substitute Ellis Genge with such a relish that, aided and abetted by Vincent Koch, the refitted front row won four scrum penalties in a row.

BOMB SQUAD: South Africa win a penalty from the scrum. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Nobody could make out the muffled sound of a distant chime when ‘The Ox’ trundled out into the sheeting rain with England en route to a slaying beyond compare.

Retshegofaditswe Nche had barely half-an-hour to avert a national crisis, deny the supposedly hopeless outsiders a giant-killing only they believed possible and show the world there is no limit to the destructive power of a prop fuelled by cake, preferably of the chocolate variety.