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Ask Steven: Which Springbok coach has the best win-rate?

South Africa coaches Heyneke Meyer, left, and Nick Mallett. Scott Barbour/ALLSPORT

Who has the best win-rate among Springbok coaches?

Excluding Gerrie Sonnekus, who was appointed in 1993 but never took up the appointment, Allister Coetzee is the twelfth coach to prepare South African Test teams since the end of apartheid in 1992.

The only Springbok coach to finish with a 100 percent win record in Tests was Kitch Christie, whose reign included South Africa's winning run through the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

The best South African coaching records to date are:

Coetzee goes into the autumn internationals with a 44 percent win-rate from his first nine Tests in charge [four victories from nine].