Theuns Briers

Briers matriculated at Paarl Boys' High School and played club rugby for the Paarl RC. He made his provincial debut for Western Province in 1953 was a member the Western Province Currie Cup winning teams in 1954 and 1959.^[2]

Briers made his test match debut for South Africa against Robin Thompson's British Lions side in 1955 at Ellis Park in front of over 90,000 fans and scored two tries. He initially declared himself unavailable for the Springbok tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1956, but was called up as a replacement and joined the tour in time for the second test against the All Blacks.^[3] Briers also played in 5 tour matches during the New Zealand leg of the tour and scored 4 tries.^[4]

No.	Opponents	Results (SA 1st)	Position	Tries	Dates	Venue
1.	British Lions	25–9	Wing	2	6 Aug 1955	Ellis Park, Johannesburg
2.	British Lions	6–9	Wing	1	20 Aug 1955	Newlands, Cape Town
3.	British Lions	6–9	Wing		3 Sep 1955	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
4.	British Lions	22–8	Wing	2	24 Sep 1955	Crusaders Ground, Port Elizabeth
5.	New Zealand	8–3	Wing		4 Aug 1956	Athletic Park, Wellington
6.	New Zealand	10–17	Wing		18 Aug 1956	Lancaster Park, Christchurch
7.	New Zealand	5–11	Wing		1 Sep 1956	Eden Park, Auckland

• List of South Africa national rugby union players – Springbok no. 313