Burger: It doesn’t get much bigger than this

It would have been very easy for Schalk Burger to call it a day in 2016.

Back then he was coming towards the end of his time in Japan with Suntory Sungoliath and few would have denied the flanker his right to bow out after a glittering career.

Burger was already a world champion by then, he had been voted World Rugby Player of the Year in 2004 and he was the most-capped flanker in South Africa’s history.