| JAPAN 87 | V | KAZAKHSTAN 10 | |||||
| COMPETITION: Asia Five Nations | DATE: 25 April 2009 | Updated 02.08.2009 | |||||
| VENUE: Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Ground, Osaka | SPECTATORS: 1,575 | ||||||
| REFEREE: Anthony ? (Hong Kong) | HALFTIME: 40-3 | Home Page | |||||
| SCORERS: | SCORERS: | ||||||
| TRIES: Imamura (2), Webb (2), Goromaru (2), Kikutani, Robins, | TRIES: Abdrazakov | ||||||
| Yatomi, Thompson, Leitch, Tarrant, Yoshida | |||||||
| CONVERSIONS: Webb (9), Goromaru (2) | CONVERSIONS: Cherkashin | ||||||
| PENALTY GOALS: | PENALTY GOALS: Cherkashin | ||||||
| DROPPED GOALS: | DROPPED GOALS: | ||||||
| 15 | Ayumu Goromaru | Yamaha | 15 | Dmitriy Pichugin | RSC Almaty | ||
| 14 | Hiroki Yoshida | Toshiba | 14 | Zhassulan Tasspolatov (21) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 13 | Bryce Robins (22) | NEC | 13 | Alexandr Zakharov | RSC Almaty | ||
| 12 | Yuta Imamura | Kobe Steel | 12 | Ildar Abdrazakov | CSKA Almaty | ||
| 11 | Hirotoki Onozawa | Suntory | 11 | Daulet Akymbekov | CSKA Almaty | ||
| 10 | Shaun Webb (21) | World Coca Cola | 10 | Denis Cherkashin | RSC Almaty | ||
| 9 | Yuki Yatomi (20) | Yamaha | 9 | Oleg Guselnokov (20) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 8 | Touetsu Taufa | Kintetsu | 8 | Timur Mashurov (Capt.) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 7 | Takashi Kikutani (Capt.) | Toyota Motor | 7 | Anton Rudov (18) | Enisey-STM-Krasnoyarsk, Russia | ||
| 6 | Phillip O’Reilly (18) | Sanyo | 6 | Ilya Poplavskiy | RSC Almaty | ||
| 5 | Luke Thompson | Kintetsu | 5 | Yevgeniy Shekurov | RSC Almaty | ||
| 4 | Toshizumi Kitagawa | Toyota Motor | 4 | Serik Zhanseitov (19) | CSKA Almaty | ||
| 3 | Hiroshi Yamashita (17) | Kobe Steel | 3 | Vladimir Chernikh | CSKA Almaty | ||
| 2 | Yusuke Aoki (16) | Suntory | 2 | Ivan Ossikovskiy (16) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 1 | Hisateru Hirashima | Kobe Steel | 1 | Mikhail Solovyev (17) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 16 | Tateo Kanai (2) | Suntory | 16 | Mihail Bzhitskih (2) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 17 | Shinsuke Nakamura (3) | Nihon University | 17 | Evgeny Antonov (1) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 18 | Michael Leitch (6) | Tokai University | 18 | Grigoriy Ivanchenko (7) | CSKA Almaty | ||
| 19 | Hitoshi Ono | Toshiba | 19 | Akhmetzhan Baratov (4) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 20 | Fumaiki Tanaka (9) | Sanyo | 20 | Roman Sorokodyuba (9) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 21 | Tatsuhiko Otao (10) | Yamaha | 21 | Pavel Stikhin (14) | RSC Almaty | ||
| 22 | Jack Tarrant (13) | Mitsubishi Sagamihara | 22 | ||||
| HEAD COACH: John Kirwan | HEAD COACH: Valery Popov | ||||||
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| MATCH NOTES Yellow Card: Shakurov (60) For Japan, Tarrant, Taufa, Tamashita, Nakamura and Kanai were making their test debuts. Yatomi last played for Japan in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Finals game against Fiji, whilst O'Reilly also last played for Japan in the 2007 World Cup, against Canada. Goromaru last played a test for Japan against Ireland in 2005. Otao's last test match goes back even further to November 2004 when he made his debut against Wales with the Japanese going down 0-98! Leitch and Tarrants' tries were their first for Japan. There is some confusion over various sources placement of Kazakhstan's No's 16 & 1; Some have them reversed. An article by Luke O'Callaghan at www.heavensgame.com, who, by residency, qualifies to play for Kazakhstan, indicates that a number of players play for Russian clubs. Sources Ian McDonnell, RiJ Newsletter Vol.6, No.17 at www.rugbyinternational.net |
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