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WORLD CUP STAR XV

1 Os du Randt South Africa 1995 and 2007

Os du Randt was a big man. A tough man and as it turned out, a suprisingly mobile and durable man.

He gave the Boks scrum a destructive edge in 2007 when he was the best loose-head in the world and that was after he had given them an added running dimension 12 years earlier in 1995.

2 Dane Coles New Zealand 2015

The All Blacks had a physical edge in 2015 but

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