SA Rugby
Tayla Kinsey will earn her 30th cap for the Springbok Women's team when they take on Italy on Friday in Cape Town, for only the second time since 2004.
The teams clash on Friday at the Athlone Stadium in the WXV Competition underway in the country.
“This is huge for us – the opportunity to be tested by and compete with the top sides brings massive encouragement to our squad,” said Kinsey.
According to a statement, Kinsey said they were "not only becoming better players, learning to cope with more big pressure moments and finding our identity when under stress."
She said they were also on home soil showing all South Africans how much this jersey means to us.
“We are playing for them too, just like the Springboks do and we want them to know that. WXV gives us that platform.”
The most capped scrumhalf in the local women’s game played in two Rugby World Cups already and Kinsey compares WXV to a ‘mini’ World Cup.
“This is going to repeat itself next year, so you don’t have to wait every four years now to play the best teams,” she said.
Kinsey and co will face Italy, ranked eighth in the world, compared to the Springbok Women’s 13th position, but she insists they are not worried about that.
