Mumbai: India on Sunday won a silver medal in Asia Rugby U18 Rugby Sevens Championship 2021, losing 21-17 to the United Arab Emirates in the final fighting well in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In the final, Nandini scored for India with seven points while Aditi Kumari and Tarulata Nair contributed each five points to India’s scores.
Both teams each scored three bonds.
For UAE, Carmela Morralla scored nine points while Hannah Lear added seven, and Lara Botha contributed five.
India has reached the final by beating Kazakhstan 24-7 in the semifinals with the Top-Sapna Kumari score with 10 points including two experiments.
Tarulata rises scoring nine points while the meaning of Kumari added five points.
In a two-day tournament that has five Kazakhstan teams, Kyrgyzstan, UAE, India, and organizes Uzbekistan and plays in all-round format, India starts with a 12-10 defeat of Kazakhstan on Saturday.
The girls returned strongly to empty Kyrgyzstan 63-0 with Vaishnavi Dattatray Patil scored 15 points from three experiments and hosts who were beaten by Uzbekistan 20-5.
On Sunday, they lost to the UAE Girls 20-12, so finishing the third in the league five teams and qualifications for the semi-finals.
Speaking on that occasion, Rahul Bose, Actor, Director, Dermawan, and member of the Indian Rugby Board, this is a great moment for Rugby India.
Both teams (UAE and India) scored three experiments in the final.
No disgrace loses like that ‘”” for our U18 female team to appear and they did was more extraordinary because they were 15 years old when the pandemic hit.
They never played national tournaments, leaving the international championship.
For them to come this far is proof of their expertise, grit, and fire to make their country proud.
Thanks to the training and support staff.
Only Rugby players know how important they are in this sport.
This is a new day for India Rugby.
We go forward and up from here, “Bose was quoted in the release by Rugby India.
Vikram Ahuja, President, Rugby India said,” Congratulations on our U18 girl team, their performance has been sensational – they show mental courage, skills, and toughness far outside their year.
This is the first step in a series of steps that Rugby India has taken and will continue to promise to build all our teams into international competitive opponents.
Thank you in the deepest to the trainers, support staff, and all of our sponsors & partners for their commitment and support good to allow the team to reach this historical milestone.
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India Wins Silver at the Sevens Championship Rugby Girl U18 Asia
