England end South Africa losing streak in style with 37-21 win

South Africa were in the game only for the first 20 minutes through the boot of Pat Lambie, but once England settled it was one-way traffic and tries by Jonny May and Courtney Lawes, his first on his 50th appearance, gave the hosts a 20-9 half-time lead.

England totally dominated the second half as two great dummies by scrum-half Ben Youngs set up tries for George Ford and Owen Farrell.

South Africa were ragged and though replacement Johan Goosen crossed in a rare attack and Willie le Roux scored in the last minute they never looked like adding to their run of 11 wins and a draw against England since 2006 and have now lost five of their last six matches.

"There's plenty to work on, so that keeps us grounded," said England captain Dylan Hartley.

"We conceded six penalties in the opening 20 minutes and that isn't good enough. But we're very happy to get that monkey off our back and I'm very proud of our guys."

England claimed the opening try after 12 minutes when May, whose last Twickenham outing in December ended with a knee injury that ended his season, showed he had not lost any of his explosive pace as from clean line-out ball he hit the corner.

The game was effectively settled in the last five minutes of the first half after the Springboks had lost key lock Eben Etzebeth following a clash of heads. Elliot Daly, whose visionary left-footed kicking was always likely to add to England's options, chipped a testing one behind the Springbok defence. Mike Brown dived on it but failed to collect - or crucially touch the ball with his hand - and lock Lawes was on hand to dive on the ball to score his first international try on his 50th appearance.

Daly, who landed two halfway line penalties at Twickenham as a teenager when winning the Schools Cup final, smoothly did the same thing with the last action of the half to give England a 20-9 interval lead.

England came out firing in the second half and after a period of sustained pressure scrumhalf Ben Youngs left lock-turned flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit flailing with an outrageous dummy before setting up Ford for England's third try.

Another Farrell penalty brought the 30 points up after 50 minutes and though South Africa scored in a rare attack through Johan Goosen there was no feeling that a comeback was on the cards.

A fired-up Youngs duly did Du Toit again with a another dummy, Farrell the beneficiary this time. Willie le Roux had the final say with a try in the corner but it was little consolation on a day where England's progress under Jones took another step forwards.

"We just couldn't put any pressure on the England team and we felt it the whole game," South Africa captain Adriaan Strauss said. "We'll have a hard look at ourselves on Monday and we'll fight back."