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United Rugby Championship: Sharks 41-24 Munster – Southern province take bonus level from heavy defeat in Durban


Munster have been closely overwhelmed by the Sharks in Durban however took some extent from the United Rugby Championship contest due to Tadhg Beirne’s 81st minute attempt.

The 41-22 reverse implies that Munster go into the worldwide break with three consecutive defeats and having misplaced 4 of their six URC video games this season.

The Sharks, boasting a big contingent of Rassie Erasmus’ Springbok squad for November, had their four-try bonus wrapped up by the half-time interval.

Aphelele Fassi had opened the scoring for the hosts with lower than a minute on the clock and he was adopted throughout the whitewash by Makazole Mapimpi, Grant Williams and Andre Esterhuizen within the opening 37 minutes.

Overpowered within the scrum and battling the Sharks tempo out vast, Munster did reply by way of Tom Ahern and Mike Haley earlier than the break.

The four-try bonus will definitely have been the aim for Graham Rowntree’s males after the flip however they’d concede the primary ten factors of the second half due to a Jordan Hendrikse penalty and Vincent Tshituka’s chargedown rating.

Calvin Nash’s attempt off a Billy Burns kick-pass introduced Munster inside a rating of the comfort bonus-point and it was left to captain Beirne to offer it from shut vary within the final play of the sport.

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