#TBT: Peter Stringer's brilliant low tackle on Jonah Lomu in 2002

This week the world of rugby remembers former Springbok Joost van der Westhuizen, who died on Saturday after a long battle with Motor Neuron Disease. The scrumhalf is well known for, amongst other exploits, his heroic tackle on Jonah Lomu in the 1995 RWC. With it, the tackle brought back memories of another relatively diminutive figure renowned for occasionally beating the odds. Ireland scrum-half Peter Stringer surprised not only the big All Black himself, but probably the whole of Carisbrook when he made this terrific tackle in the first Test in 2002. Seeing Lomu pouncing on a loose ball an…

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