Selborne Boome’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African rugby union footballer
Is Athlete 
Rugby union player 
From South Africa 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 16 April 1975, Somerset West, South Africa
Age: 45 years
Star sign Aries
Stats
Height: 191 cm
Weight: 108 kg
Education
Diocesan College
Sports Teams
South Africa national rugby union team
Northampton Saints

Selborne Boome (born 16 April 1975 in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa) is a rugby union player who has made 20 appearances for the South African national rugby union team, the Springboks. He represented Northampton Saints and Montferrand overseas and had 2 spells in Super Rugby with the Stormers franchise.

Playing career

Boome attended Bishops College in Cape Town and played for their First XV in the same team alongside Herschelle Gibbs and Robbie Fleck.

Boome won the 1997 Currie Cup with Western Province and made his test debut against Italy 2 years later. He was ruled out of the 1999 Rugby World Cup with a thumb injury but was back the following year to represent the Springboks in the millennium test against Canada.

Boome represented South Africa at the 2003 Rugby World Cup playing against Uruguay, Georgia and in the 29-9 quarter-final exit at the hands of the allblacks. He was involved in the controversial Kamp Staldraad incident as well as a racial feud with then roommate Geo Cronje who refused to share a room with a “coloured”.

In 2004 Boome departed to join Northampton Saints and later returned to South Africa in 2007 for his swansong season with Western Province in that season’s Currie Cup.

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