Test Match No. 242: 10th Asian 5 Nations 2009 1st match

日本語 Photo Journal
25/04/2009, the 2009 HSBC Asian Five Nations
Japan 87 Kazakhstan 10
Hanazono Rugby Grounds, Osaka
Half-time: 40-3
Referee: Anthony ('Tobi') Lothian (Hong Kong)
Assistant Referees: 1st Andrew Tranent (Hong Kong), 2nd Dewi Rowlands (Hong Kong), 3rd Taku Otsuki (Japan)
Crowd: 1,575
 
JAPAN: 15 Ayumu Goromaru, 14 Hiroki Yoshida, 13 Bryce Robins (22 Jack Tarrant 55), 12 Yuta Imamura, 11 Hirotoki Onozawa, 10 Shaun Webb (21 Tatsuhiko Otao 70), 9 Yuki Yatomi (20 Fumiaki Tanaka 58), 8 Touetsu Taufa, 7 Takashi Kikutani (capt), 6 Philip O'Reilly (18 Micheal Leitch 55), 5 Luke Thompson, 4 Toshizumi Kitagawa, 3 Hiroshi Yamashita (17 Shinsuke Nakamura 58), 2 Yusuke Aoki (16 Tateo Kanai 89), 1 Hisateru Hirashima.
Reserve: 19 Hitoshi Ono.
Tries: Imamura (2), Webb (2), Goromaru (2), Kikutani, Robins, Yatomi, Thompson, Leitch, Tarrant, H. Yoshida; Conversions: Webb (9), Goromaru (2).
 
KAZAKHSTAN: 15 Dmitriy Pichuguin, 14 Zhassulan Tasspolatov (21 Pavel Stikhin 70), 13 Alexandr Zhkharov, 12 Ildar Abdrazakov, 11 Daulet Akymbekov, 10 Denis Cherkashin, 9 Oleg Guselnokov (20 Grigoriy Ivanchenko 78), 8 Timur Mashurov (capt), 7 Anton Rudoy (18 Roman Sorokodyuba 52), 6 Ilya Poplavskiy, 5 Yevgeniy Shekurov, 4 Serik Zhanseitov (19 Akhmetzhan Baratov 70), 3 Vladimir Cherikh, 2 Ivan Ossikovskiy (16 Mikhail Solovyev 52), 1 Mihail Bzhiskih (17 Evgeny Antonov 30).
Reserve: 22 (not registered).
Try: Abdrazakov; Conversion: Cherkashin; Penalty Goal: Cherkashin.
Yellow Card: Zhanseitov (60, sin-bin, repeated infringements).
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 9min-try Japan, Imamura; conv. Webb-7-0, 13min-try Japan, Kikutani; conv. Webb-14-0, 16min-try Japan, Webb; conv. Webb-21-0, 28min-pen Kazakhstan, Cherkashin-21-3, 33min-try Japan, Goromaru; conv. Webb-28-3, 37min-try Japan, Webb; conv. Webb-35-3, 39min-try Japan, Goromaru; conv. Webb (missed)-40-3, Half-time, 41min-try Japan, Robins; conv. Webb-47-3, 44min-try Kazakhstan, Abdrazakov; conv. Cherkashin-47-10, 54min-try Japan, Yatomi; conv. Webb-54-10, 61min-try Japan, Thompson; conv. Webb-61-10, 68min-try Japan, Leitch; conv. Webb-68-10, 72min-try Japan, Imamura; conv. Goromaru (missed)-73-10, 77min-try Japan, Tarrant; conv. Goromaru-80-10, 80min-try Japan, H. Yoshida; conv. Goromaru-87-10.