SANZAAR has delivered its verdict: it will be a two-week suspension for Argentinian Juan Cruz Mallia “until August 18 inclusive.” The back of Stade Toulousain had charged, during the Argentina-South Africa match, the opposing scrum-half Grant Williams.
If he will be available for the World Cup in France, which begins on September 8, he will not be able to be in the XV of the Pumas this Saturday against the Springboks. Juan Cruz Mallia will be available again against Spain on August 26. The Argentinian’s gesture was initially judged “without fault” by the referee of the meeting, Andrew Brace, the commission therefore ruled that a sanction of “four to six weeks” would have been “disproportionate”.
