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The final round of the 2013 Rugby Championship produced a superb advert for the game of rugby with New Zealand beating South Africa 38-27 in Johannesburg.

The 2013 Rugby Championship title is up for grabs when New Zealand meet South Africa at Johannesburg's Ellis Park this weekend.

Jason Leonard, a 2003 World Cup winner with England, hopes that the rugby team can take inspiration from and emulate England's successful cricketers.

The Rugby Championship's penultimate round saw favourites New Zealand and South Africa both take convincing victories.

Watch as Ben Mowen, who will captain Australia against Argentina in their fourth Rugby Championship 2013, talks about leading the side.

It was South Africa who made the biggest statement of the third round of the 2013 Rugby Championship with an emphatic 38-12 crushing of Australia.

South Africa go into this week's Rugby Championship clash with Australia looking for a third straight win while their opponents are yet to get off the mark.

The All Blacks welcome Argentina to Auckland as huge competition favourites while the wounded Wallabies, who have not yet recorded a vicoty in the 2013 tournament, host South Africa on Saturday night.

Ahead of the 2013 Rugby Championship’s looming third round, Australia make four changes to their team to face South Africa on Saturday night.

After another action packed round of rugby in the 2013 Rugby Championship, it is the All Blacks and Springboks who sit at the top of the table.

New Zealand scrum-half Aaron Smith and Australia captain James Horwill look ahead to this weekend's New Zealand-Australia Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship clash in Wellington.

The Rugby Championship Round 1 was exciting with two really high scoring matches. Why were so many points scored?

Following New Zealand's 47-29 Rugby Championship 2013 win over Australia, watch reaction from Steve Hansen, Ewen McKenzie and James Horwill.

The All Blacks are the hot favourites to win the Rugby Championship in 2013. Can anyone beat them?

New Australia coach Ewen McKenzie looks ahead to the 2013 Rugby Championship in this rugby video after naming his squad for the start of the tournament.

Warren Gatland’s British and Irish Lions needed a win in front of 83,702 supporters in Sydney to claim their first series in 16 years after previously infallible kicker Leigh Halfpenny failed to convert a last minute penalty to overturn a 1 point deficit in Melbourne as the second test finished 16-15 to the Australians.

So it will come down to the final game. Right down to the wire. And who would have predicted this?

The British & Irish Lions got their campaign off to the perfect start with a 23-21 win over Australia in the opening match in Brisbane.

It is almost the end of 2012 and I thought that I would name a World Rugby Team of 2012 to encourage debate

In rugby, often the workhorses of the front 5 can be overlooked when men of the match awards are handed out, or world player of the year nominations happen