JAPAN  87		V		KAZAKHSTAN  0
		COMPETITION: Asia Five Nations				DATE: 28 April 2012	Updated 07.06.2012
		VENUE: Central Stadium, Almaty				SPECTATORS: 3,400
		REFEREE: Harry Mason (Singapore).				HALFTIME: 35-0	Home Page
		SCORERS:				SCORERS:
		TRIES: Onozawa (3), Goromaru (2), Tamura, K.Ono,				TRIES:
		Senba, Hatakeyama, Fujii, Sasaki, Hirose, Nagatomo
		CONVERSIONS: Goromaru (11)				CONVERSIONS:
		PENALTY GOALS:				PENALTY GOALS:
		DROPPED GOALS:				DROPPED GOALS:
15		Ayumu Goromaru	Yamaha	15		Sergey Konev
14		Toshiaki Hirose (Capt.)	Toshiba	14		Pavel Leonov
13		Tomohiro Senba	Toshiba	13		Alexandr Zaharov
12		Yu Tamura	NEC	12		Ildar Abdrazakov
11		Hirotoki Onozawa (22)	Suntory	11		Alexandr Kireev
10		Kosei Ono (21)	Suntory	10		Daulet Akymbekov
9		Jun Fujii (20)	Toshiba	9		Akhmetzhan Baratov
8		Shoji Ito	Kobe Steel	8		Serik Zhanseitov
7		Takamichi Sasaki	Suntory	7		Nikolay Zhuravlev
6		Michael Leitch (19)	Toshiba	6		Vitaliy Pakhomov
5		Shinya Makabe	Suntory	5		Yevgeniy Shekurov
4		Hitoshi Ono (18)	Toshiba	4		Anton Makarenko
3		Kensuke Hatakeyama	Suntory	3		Vladimir Chernikh
2		Ryuhei Arita (16)	Coca Cola	2		Maxim Frifanov
1		Yusuke Nagae (17)	Ricoh	1		Andrei Medvedkin
16		Takeshi Kizu (2)	Kobe Steel	16		Sergey Menshikov
17		Hidetatsu Tsuboi (1)	Chugoku Electric Power	17		Tairzhan Arzuev
18		Koji Shinozuka (4)	Suntory	18		Ayrat Gariffullin
19		Yuta Mochizuki (6)	Toshiba	19		Dmitry Toroshin
20		Keisuke Uchida (9)	Tsukuba University	20		Alexey Kudinov
21		Harumichi Tatekawa (10)	Kubota	21		Dastan Suleimenov
22		Yasunori Nagatomo (11)	Suntory	22		Evgeniy Romanov
		HEAD COACH: Eddie Jones				HEAD COACH: Valery Popov
							Home Page
MATCH NOTES Test Debuts: Japan-Senba, Tamura, Fujii, Ito, Arita, Nagae, Tsuboi, Mochizuki, Uchida and Tatekawa. Goromaru and Nagatomo last played a test for Japan in 2010; Goromaru v Samoa in June 2010, Nagatomo v Kazakhstan in May 2010. Makabe played his only test to date, v Canada November 2009. Shinozuka last played a test for Japan v NZ Maori, June 2008. Kosei Ono and Sasaki both last played a test for Japan v Australia at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. New captain Hirose played his only test to date for Japan v Hong Kong, April 2007. Tamura, K.Ono, Senba, Fujii, Sasaki and Nagatomo all scored their first tries for Japan. At 38 years of age, Chernikh was one of the oldest test rugby players at this time. Sources Rugby in Japan newsletter Vol.9, No.18 at http://rugby-international.blogspot.com.au http://www.espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/match/162300.html Missing data/information 1) Replacements for Kazakhstan 2) Club affiliations all Kazakhstan players If you can add data not shown please contact Gary Carbines rugint@bigpond.net.au © Gary Carbines rugbyinternational.net