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2000 England rugby union tour of South Africa

series of rugby union matches

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ3996423 ↗
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Matches

Scores and results list England's points tally first.

Touring party

Manager: Clive Woodward

Assistant Manager: Andy Robinson

Captain: Martin Johnson

Full back

Matt Perry (Bath Rugby), Tim Stimpson (Leicester Tigers), Rob Thirlby (Bath Rugby).

Three-quarters

Liam Botham (Newcastle Falcons), Mike Catt (Bath Rugby), Ben Cohen (Northampton Saints), Will Greenwood (Leicester Tigers), Steve Hanley (Sale), Austin Healey (Leicester Tigers), Ben Johnston (Saracens), Josh Lewsey (London Wasps), Leon Lloyd (Leicester Tigers), Dan Luger (Saracens), Mike Tindall (Bath Rugby).

Half-backs

Scott Benton (Leeds), Kyran Bracken (Saracens), Ali Hepher (Northampton Saints), Nick Walshe (Saracens), Jonny Wilkinson (Newcastle Falcons), Martyn Wood (Saracens).

Forwards

Neil Back (Leicester Tigers), Steve Borthwick (Bath Rugby), Ben Clarke (Bath Rugby), Martin Corry (Leicester Tigers), Lawrence Dallaglio (London Wasps), David Flatman (Saracens), Darren Garforth (Leicester Tigers), Will Green (London Wasps), Phil Greening (London Wasps), Danny Grewcock (Saracens), Martin Johnson (Leicester Tigers), Richard Hill (Saracens), Jason Leonard (Harlequins), Andy Long (Bath Rugby), Mark Regan (Bath Rugby), Graham Rowntree (Leicester Tigers), Simon Shaw (London Wasps), Andrew Sheridan (Bristol), Paul Volley (London Wasps), Julian White (Saracens), Roy Winters (Bedford Blues), Trevor Woodman (Gloucester Rugby), Joe Worsley (London Wasps).

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The public source identifies “2000 England rugby union tour of South Africa” as series of rugby union matches. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around England, rugby and union.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 185-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with England, rugby and union providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2000 England rugby union tour of South Africa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.