No South Africans made the cut when World Rugby announced its candidates for player of the year award on Monday.
The candidates nominated are All Blacks Beauden Barrett (last year's winner) and Rieko Ioane , the England and Lions duo of Owen Farrell and Maro Itoje , as well as Australia's Israel Folau .
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