Bevan impressed when making his debut against South Africa and was denied a first-half try after a final pass went astray.

"What an occasion to have my first cap against the current world champions," said Bevan.

"I have watched the Springboks for years so you know what's coming.

"We had a game plan and stuck to it and in the first 50 minutes we executed that reasonably well.

"There will be missed opportunities we can look back on but we can be proud of enforcing our own plan and being just one point down at half-time.

"We are never going to be pleased with losing but we can be positive with some of the things we showed out there."

Bevan was not overawed in his duel with Springboks scrum-half Faf de Klerk.

"It was something I was looking forward to and wanted to embrace playing against a double World Cup winner on my debut," said Bevan.

"If I want to get to where he is, I have to come up against the best.

"He told me I had a good game and said keep going. He was kind enough to give me his shirt and we had a photo in the changing room.

"So he is a good guy on and off the field."