Karne Hesketh’s 84th-minute try sealed a staggering victory.
Japan pulled off the greatest shock in Rugby World Cup history as they stunned mighty South Africa 34-32 at the Amex Stadium in Brighton on this day in 2015.
Jones admitted: “Japan beating South Africa? I had to look at the scoreboard at the end just to see if it was true or not.“We kept hanging in there. It looked at one stage when they got seven points ahead that they would run away with it. “Normally they would score three or four, it ends up 50-20 and everyone says, ‘well done Japan, you tried hard, you were brave’. But we were more than brave.”Japan celebrated one of the Rugby World Cup’s greatest upsets
Lood De Jager and Adriaan Strauss scored under the posts in the second half but a try from full-back Ayumu Goromaru, as well as his nerveless kicking, drew Japan level at 29-29 with just 10 minutes to play.
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