Paul Gilham/Getty-Images Ma'a Nonu hands off Drew Mitchell on the way to score in the 2015 World Cup final. When New Zealand won the World Cup final in 2011 and 2015 they had Ma’a Nonu, backed up by Sonny Bill Williams, in the number 12 shirt. It’s an abundant number, a sublime number, a highly composite number. 12 Olympians, 12 labours of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 jurors, 12 days of Christmas, 12 months in a year. There is a deep magic, an old magic in the number 12.

Source: Stuff July 04, 2020 16:52 UTC