At a rainy Kings Park, the Sharks opened their Super Rugby season with a workmanlike 24-9 win over the Cheetahs on Saturday evening.
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It was a pretty unattractive encounter with the conditions not conducive to running rugby, but the Sharks will be more than happy to have claimed the four log points.

The Sharks opened the scoring early on when flanker Jacques Botes barrelled over from the back of a driving maul, but flyhalf Patrick Lambie missed the conversion.

Not long after, though, Lambie made up for the earlier miss by slotting a penalty to take the home team into an 8-0 lead after 10 minutes.

With the rain coming down just before kick-off, play was rather scrappy, and the only other points of the half came via the boot of Cheetahs’ flyhalf Naas Olivier when he kicked a penalty in the 34th minute.

Olivier then opened the second half scoring as he easily slotted a penalty to cut the Cheetahs’ deficit back to just two points.

Lambie quickly restored the five-point lead with an impressive penalty a few minutes later, though, and not long after added another three-points to give the Durban team an eight point cushion.

The game continued to meander along before Olivier slotted his third penalty of the night in the 64th minute.

However, the Sharks virtually sealed the match when hooker Bismarck du Plessis scored from a driving lineout, taking the hosts into a 12-point lead once Lambie slotted the conversion.

Lambie’s replacement, Jacques-Louis Potgieter then well and truly sealed the result with a late penalty.

Scorers

Sharks: Tries – Jacques Botes, Bismarck du Plessis.

Conversion – Patrick Lambie.

Penalties – Lambie (3), Jacques-Louis Potgieter

Cheetahs:

Penalties – Naas Olivier (3)

Sharks Cheetahs
SIN BINS
44 RUCKS/MAULS 24
0 LINE BREAKS 0
1 OFFLOADS 3
4 SCRUM WINS 4
12 LINE OUTS WON 12
45 RUNS 19
23 KICKS 25
24 TACKLES MADE 44
15 TURNOVERS 11
8 PENALTIES CONCEDED 14
2 FREE KICKS CONCEDED 3
46% POSSESSION 54%

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