Islamabad 10s

Islamabad Rugby Football Club under the supervision of Islamabad Rugby Association is planning for a two days 10-side rugby tournament in January 2010 (30th & 31st). The management of the club is looking forward for the response/confirmation from different rugby entities

Niazi the unlikely Toa hero
Paul Radley
Last Updated: December 05. 2009 12:19AM UAE / December 4. 2009 8:19PM GMT
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DUBAI // The bright pink shirts dappled with hibiscus flowers are not the only things that screams originality about the Gulf’s newest club, Toa Dubai.They have also ignored the conventional route for recruiting players. The Emirates League side have one of the most cosmopolitan squads of any of the 161 sides at The Sevens this weekend.Their second team are known as the “Toa-ratis”, based on the fact that all but two of their players are Emirati. The first team have two ex-Samoa internationals, including Trevor Leota, the peroxide blond tank, yet their leading light yesterday hails from the rugby backwater of Pakistan.
If stereotypes are to be believed Adnan Niazi should have been more concerned with how Mohammed Yousuf and Co were doing against New Zealand, rather than throwing miss passes and scoring tries.“I don’t care about cricket,” said Niazi, who dotted down two tries in Toa’s 40-7 win over Dubai Dragons third team. “I don’t mind Twenty20, but the rest is too slow. I like fast- running and fast-moving games, which is why I like sevens.”
The 24-year-old fly-half first picked up a rugby ball when he was 16 at the suggestion of his cousins in his native Islamabad. He has been living in Dubai for five years, where he is studying to be a chartered accountant. Next year he is expected to debut for the full Pakistan side when they play in division two of the Asian Five nations.“I am looking forward to representing my country,” he said. “Two of my cousins have already played for them, so I want to follow.”

Pakistan 7s Team Return to lahore after Sri lanka Win

Sri Lanka : Carlton 7s Rugby players meet Sri Lanka President

Sri Lanka : Carlton 7's Rugby players meet Sri Lanka President:

"Carlton 7's Rugby players meet Sri Lanka President
Nov 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa greeted the players of the Carlton 7's Rugby Tournament 2009 at Temple Trees on Thursday evening.
The chief organizer of the tournament Namal Rajapaksa introduced the players to the President and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa. Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge was also present at the event.
The sixth and final leg of the Asian Sevens rugby series organized jointly by the Tharunyata Hetak Foundation and the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) titled 'Carlton Sevens' is held from November 27 -29 at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo.
Asian rugby playing nations Japan, South Korea Kazakhstan, Chinese Taipei, China, Thailand, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka will be competing in the tournament"

Carlton Srilankan 7s Tournament

Pakistan Win the Bowl
Pakistan National 7S Team
Pakistan Rugby Team Win in "Carlton Srilankan 7s Tournament" In sri lanka

The Pakistan 7s tugby team won the Bowl Championship in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, beating Iran 19-17 in the semi-final and then defeating Brunei in the Final 24-12. Pakistan captain Kashif Khawaja, Sair Riaz, Khalid Bhatti and Shakeel all ran in tries in the Final, to take Pakistan through to a memorable win.

The "Carlton Srilankan 7s Tournament" is a prestigious championship on the Asian 7s circuit, with the top national teams from Asia and club sides from the Southern Hemisphere showcasing their talent. The three tier event also features a local Schools and Colleges Championship, the Asian Championship and a Club Championship for teams from New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Australia.


Captain Kashif khawaja, on the phone from Colombo, said: "The real hard game was against Iran but the boys played like lions and wanted to make a mark for Pakistan.
With all the things happening back home they wanted to prove that Pakistan is not a weak nation and will not give up." He said the entire team contributed to the win, but singled out Sair Riaz as Pakistan's man-of-the-tournament.




Manager Haji Anwar, also commenting by phone from Colombo, added: "It was very well organized tournament, a pleasure to participate in. Sair played exceptionally, and Kashif was a good captain, leading fromt the front by scoring in the final.'
Rugby 7s has recently received a significant boost by the IOC's decision to include this form of the game as a full-medal sport in the Olympic Games 2016 onwards .

The Pakistan 7s squad is comprised of:
Naeem Tahir, Baber Shahzad, Shaharyar Ahmed and Khalid Bhati from Police

From Universities/HEC M Junaid Liaqat ( LUMS) , Manan Naseem(UMT)From Islamabad Rugby Association Kashif Khawaja( Captain )

From Punjab Rugby Association Shakeel Ahmed, Umer Islam and Umer Usman ( Vice Captain),M Tahir , Sair Riaz ( from Lahore ) and Waseem Abbas ( Bahawalnagar),the Manger
and coach on tour are Jamal qureshi and Mr. Anwar Zafar respectively

President Fauzi khawaja, who is in Dublin Ireland taking part in the IRB general council meeting, commented: "This is a great Victory for Pakistan and reflects the hard work the boys have put in." He congratulated the team coach and the captain, and said he is looking forward to giving the squad a warm welcome on there return.

ASIAN RUGBY FOOTBAL UNION

ASIAN RUGBY FOOTBAL UNION: "Carlton Srilankan Rugby 7s
The sixth and final leg of the Asian Sevens rugby series the ‘Carlton Sevens’ will kick off on Nov 27 at the Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo.

The tournament has been divided into four pools Japan, Kazakhstan, Iran are in pool ‘A’, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Jordan are in pool ‘B’, China, Malaysia, Brunei from pool ‘C’ and hosts Sri Lanka, South Korea and Pakistan are in pool ‘D’."

Lahore Inter School & Inter Collegiate GamesRugby Championship


Lahore 18th November today the Punjab rugby Association held a rugby championsip as part of the Lahore interschool and intercollegiate Games 2009 the tournament is being organized by the Punjab Olympic association and this is the first time rugby is being played in Pakistan as part of a multi sport event at any level a big achievement for Punjab Olympic and Punjab rugby Associations
Punjab Olympic Association has again led the way in embracing this new and exciting sports and rugby inclusion in the Lahore interschool and intercollegiate sports championship is a testament to this far sightedness on there part
President of Punjab Rugby Association MajGen ( Retd ) M Ashraf Chaudhry explained that the Rugby event will be held over two days the 18th and 18th of November, the first day will be the round robin matches and the final day will see semi finals and the finals the rugby event will take place at the Garrison Degree Model College . The garrison degree model college has two great very lush rugby grounds where both school and collegiate championship will run at the same time. he thanked the organizers for including rugby as part of the games and promised that it would be a very excited and well run event.
Pakistan Rugby union is providing the officiating staff there are 8 teams competing in the colligate competition which will be played using the 10s rugby format and there will be 6 team competing in the school section who will be playing the 7s format
On the 9th of October IOC in Copenhagen voted to include rugby back in the Olympics. Rugby will be one of the 28 sports in 2016 Olympics. This fact will help propel the development of the game of rugby. Rugby has been recently been included in other global multi sport events such as the commonwealth, Asian, pan American and world games
Pakistan rugby union is seeking rugby inclusion in the provincial and national games with all 5 provinces Fata army, police Wapda, railways and HEC as members. You will see rugby in many more multi sport events in Pakistan.
The school That participate were Government Model High School Model Town , CNS Trust School .Jinnah Foundation School Government High School Jallo Mor, Educators and The City School Ravi Campus,
the collages that participated were Government Islamia Collage railway Lines , Garrison Degree Collage DHA , Government Collage Gulberg 3 , Government Collage University Lahore ,Government Science Collage Wahdat Road And Government Higher Secondary School Jallo Mor.
Tomorrow is finals day and the first semi final for the collages will be Garrison Degree Collage DHA vs Government Higher Secondary School Jallo Mor and the other semi final will be Government Collage University Lahore vs Government High School Shalimar campus
In the Schools competition the first semi finals will be Government Model High School Model Town VS The City School Ravi Campus and the second semi final is Government High School Jallo Mor vs Jinnah Foundation School.
today's best performance was shown by Garrison Degree Collage DHA winning there quaterfinal match 45-0 they are clear favorites to take the collages title in there home ground tommrow

Pakistan Under 20 travels to Manila Philippines

The Pakistan under 20 national rugby team left for manila Philippines from Lahore airport, they are on tour to participate in the Asian under 20 Div II championship from 16-22nd of November, this is Pakistan 2 participation in international Junior age grade Rugby. the other participation was when Pakistan itself hosted the Asian under 19 championship in Lahore in which 11 international team competed in what was also a world cup qualifier a extremely successful event with over 450 participants .

The Asian Junior Championship Div II will have the following teams Philippines , Laos , Iran , and PakistanThe traveling squad is made of 24 players and two official the players areMohammad Hashim, Awais Ahmed Khan Niazi, Mian Ali Shan, Saad Arif Bashir, Romail Ashraf Qureshi, Syed Haroon Shah, Mustafa Mehdi, Syed Kamal Ali Shah , Bilal Khan, Umair Javed Mustaq, Ahsan Tariq Manzoor, Jawahir Azam, Shamvill Khan, Osman Ahmed Choudry, Areeb Ali , Abdul Samad, Khawar Ashraf, Waqar Javaid, Ayub Zafar, Abdullah, Muhammad Abu-Bakar Khan, Ahsan Ilyas, Ahsan Riaz and Mohammad Shakeel Chattaha,

Coach on tour is Mr. Mohsin Iqbal Khan who is a very experienced national team player who has been appointment to the PRU Youth development program on a full time basis The manger on tour is Mr. Fawzan Wain

President Fawzi khawaja commented that "with the development work done in schools over the past 5 years by PRU has meant that this year we are lucky to have a good pool of experienced junior players to choose from. and is looking forward to the development of the under 20 program
the captain on tour is Mr bilal khan from Islamabad rugby association and the Vice captain is Mr. waqar javed from the Multan district team
the Punjab Olympic association is holding the Lahore school and colligate games on 17 nov in which rugby is also being played with 12 schools and 6 collages just from Lahore a great acivment for the Pujab rugby assosition ,

The national team coach Rizwan malik stated that PRU as part of its 4 year Development strategy has given youth rugby the biggest emphasis and PRU having big plans to develop the under 20 program to the fullest. Currently there are over 50 schools all over Pakistan and with a 1000 players at age grade rugby and we would like to atleast double that number every year .

PRU has been holding camps for the boys for the last 3 month besides the camps the under 20 had a chance to have practice games against Lums university , Punjab Rugby Association Team , Lahore RFC, and Islamabad RFC the team also got lucky as 3 of the practices camps the coaching was by Mr. David Dwyer the national cricket team trainer who was a former Rugby Coach for a Professional rugby team in Australia , Mr. dyer volunteered his time to spend with the under 20 , and his input was invaluable .

The Philippines rugby football union also arranged for a tour of the historical part of Manila it is called Intermuros, the Philippine Department of Tourism will conduct the tour and will provide buses and guides for each team, , it is a good way to learn about another culture beside the great rugby experience for the young boys it will help in the future development of these boys

ARFU DIV 2 TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:
Nov 16 - 22nd 2009
Tues 17th Nov @ International School of Manila (ISM)
5.00 pm Philippines V Laos
6.40pm Iran V Pakistan
Thurs 19th Nov @ (ISM)
5.00pm Philippines V Iran
6.40pm Pakistan V Laos
Sat 21st Nov @ Nomads Sports Field
3.00pm Iran V Laos
4.40pm Philippines V Pakistan

This is the first international participation for a junior national team it will be tough tour for the boys but the boys all have a great attitude and a hunger and will give it there best , this tour is defiantly a important step in the future of the development of rugby in Pakistan. the tour details will updated daily on the PRU website www.pakistanrugby.com

Universevens

POOLS, TIMETABLE & RESULTS

 

 

DAY 1 – Qualifying round (Saturday, 14^th Nov.)

Time	Pool	Team	Team	Result
15.00	A	LUMS	UCL	15 – 0
15.20	B	UMT	IUB	5 – 29
15.40	C	FAGDC	FAST	0 – 10
16.00	D	PAC	LUMS G	5 – 12
16.20	A	GDC	LUMS	0 – 45
16.40	B	UVAS	UMT	0 – 28
17.00	C	GCU	FAGDC	0 – 5
17.20	D	BU	PAC	0 – 12
17.40	A	UCL	GDC	7 – 5
18.00	B	IUB	UVAS	28 – 0
18.20	C	FAST	GCU	5 – 0
18.40	D	LUMS G	BU	31 – 0

DAY 1 – Results

	W	L	PF	PA	Total
Pool A
LUMS	2	0	60	0	60
UCL	1	1	7	20	-13
GDC	0	2	5	52	-47
Pool B
IUB	2	0	57	5	52
UMT	1	1	33	29	4
UVAS	0	2	0	56	-56
Pool C
FAST	2	0	15	0	15
FAGDC	1	1	5	10	-5
GCU	0	2	10	0	-10
Pool D
LUMS G	2	0	43	5	38
PAC	1	1	17	12	5
BU	0	2	0	43	-43

DAY 2 – Finals (Sunday, 15^th Nov.)

Time	Game	Team	Team
14.00	SF Bowl (1)	GDC	GCU
14.20	SF Bowl (2)	UVAS	BU
14.40	SF Plate (3)	UCL	FAGDC
15.00	SF Plate (4)	UMT	PAC
15.20	SF Cup (5)	LUMS	FAST
15.40	SF Cup (6)	IUB	LUMS G
16.00	3rd/4th Bowl	Loser Game 1	Loser Game 2
16.20	Final Bowl	Winner Game 1	Winner Game 2
16.40	3rd/4th Plate	Loser Game 3	Loser Game 4
17.00	Final Plate	Winner Game 3	Winner Game 4
17.20	3rd/4th Cup	Loser Game 5	Loser Game 6
17.40	Final Cup	Winner Game 5	Winner Game 6

 

Universevens – Rugby tournament at LUMS

14th and 15th of November 2009
With rugby 7s recent inclusion in the Olympic Games, rugby’s popularity is increasing. LUMS is playing its part in promoting rugby among Pakistani universities by hosting the “Universevens”, a universities rugby tournament on the 14th and 15th of November.

This is going to be the biggest university rugby event yet, with the top rugby universities competing. For the past few years, LUMS has been very active in rugby.

Along with holding a national level 15s tournament, the “LUMS Super Six”, LUMS is now actively promoting rugby in other Pakistani universities.
The aim of this tournament is to get together national universities that have excelled in sporting activities and develop its players’ rugby skills. The tournament will be played in the Sevens format, a variant of rugby union played in the same field with only seven players per side, and with each match lasting 14 minutes.

This year 12 teams will be participating in the Universevens, namely, Bahria University, Fort Abbas Degree College, Garrison Degree College, Government College University, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, Islamic University Bahawalpur, LUMS, FAST Islamabad, Professional Academy College, University College Lahore, University of Management and Technology, and the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

On Saturday afternoon the teams will play the qualifying rounds in four pools, with the finals happening on Sunday afternoon. The Pakistan Rugby Union (PRU) will be providing referees and match officials for this tournament.

Later this month, several LUMS rugby players will be traveling to Sri Lanka as members of the Pakistan National Sevens squad, to play in the IRB sanctioned Asian rugby 7s series. This tournament is a qualifier for Asian countries to compete in the prestigious IRB 7s circuit that leads to the Rugby 7s World Cup.

24 Sep 2009Shanghai Sevens: Highlights

24 Sep 2009
Shanghai Sevens: Highlights

Pakistan Under 20 Rugby Camp

Pakistan Under 20 Rugby Team Camp The Pakistan Rugby Union held another intensive camp for the Under 20 national team Boys from all over Pakistan .

The under 20 team will be playing in the Asian under 20 Div II championship to be held mid nov in Manila ,Philippines this is Pakistan 2 participation in international Junior age grade Rugby. the other participation was when Pakistan itself hosted the Asian under 19 championship in Lahore in which 11 international team competed in what was also a world cup qualifier a extremely successful event with over 450 participants .


The Asian Junior Championship Div II will have the following teams philippines , Guam , Iran , India , China and pakistan President Fawzi khawaja commented that "with the development work done in schools over the past 5 years by PRU has meant that this year we are lucky to have a good pool of experienced junior players to choose from. and is looking forward to the development of the under 20 program"

the Punjab Olympic association is holding the Lahore school and collegiate games on 17 nov in which rugby is also being played with 12 schools and 6 collages just from Lahore playing rugby including for the time will be Government Collage university , which has a great tradition of sports.lums university is holding its annual varsity rugby championship with 12 universities from all over Pakistan entering teams

national team coach Rizwan malik stated that PRU has as part of its 4 year Development strategy has given youth rugby the biggest emphasis and PRU having big plans to develop the under 20 program to the fullest.Besides just camps PRU is planning to give the squad practice games against provincial select as well other team within Pakistan.

The under 20 coach is Mohsin Khan a very experienced national team player who has been appointment to the PRU Youth development program on a full time basis over the weekend he will be finalising the names of the Shortlisted 30 players that will go in the second phase of the Camps. the squad of 24 players will be traveling with 2 offal's .

Pakistan National Team Tour . Malaysia 2009

The Pakistan rugby team arrived back in Lahore after a tour of Malaysia where Pakistan participated in the Asian 5 nations tournament .

in the first match Pakistan put up a brave fight in the first half against a Chinese side occupying 42th spot in the IRB World Rankings and trailed only 15-12 with first half tries from China Arsalan Zahid and Sair Riaz and converted by Captain Kashif Khawaja.

The second half was played under grueling and humid conditions but the Chinese winger scored the first try which was nullified by a try by Kashif Khawja which he converted himself. Pakistan was only one converted try away from beating the team ranked 42 in the world, and for the last 10 minutes battered the China defence within the Chinese 22. However the loss of a player to the sin-bin within a minute of the restart allowed China to stamp their authority on the match.

The second match between Malaysia and India was an entertaining affair with Mohd Fairuz Abd Rahman giving the hosts an early lead with a penalty in a match which saw the full back contribute 15 points of their 43 scored.
With Malaysia’s trio of Fijian-born players combining well in the centre and the right wing, the hosts consistently made ground in the backs despite some strong defence from India’s centre pairing of captain Nasser Hussain – who had moved from back row to inside centre – and Bikash Jena.

The match was still very much in the balance at half time with Malaysia leading 23-14, an advantage cut within minutes of the restart when Rohaan Sethna kicked a penalty. However Semi Sovunidakua then collected a nicely weighted kick from fly half Mahammad Faiz Shamsukidir to dot down in the corner for Malaysia.

Further tries from centre Timoci Nacokula and number 8 and captain Mohd Azwan Azimi increased that advantage to 40-17, but India refused to give up with the match already lost and score two tries in the final 10 minutes through Hussain and Ganesh Sawant.

An interesting spectator in the crowd with England’s record try scorer Rory Underwood, who returned to his boyhood home in Kuala Lumpur to visit the tournament after helping to launch this year’s HSBC Asian Five Nations in Hong Kong in April.

“In the first game between China and Pakistan both teams showed a lot of Endeavour and determination and in the second game the standard of both teams was really great,” said Underwood.

On the final Day The hosts went into the match ranked 34 places below China in the IRB World Rankings, but enjoyed a comfortable victory over a side who entered the tournament with only 19 players. China gave it their all and defended well and actually took the lead with a strong attack from the kick-off allowing Zhun Chen to cross the try-line.

However the Malaysians were hungry for the victory before their fans and replied almost immediately with a try from their Fijian-born centre Nacani Seniu, the conversion slotted between the uprights by fly half Mohammad Faiz Shamsukidir who caught the eye throughout with a man of the match display.

Malaysia can look forward to playing Singapore (relegated from the Top 5), Chinese Taipei and Sri Lanka in Division I in 2010, while China will remain in Division II with Thailand (relegated from Division I), India and the winner of Division III involving Philippines, Guam, Iran and Indonesia which takes place next month.

India ensured they remained in Division I with a 44-3 victory over Pakistan in the third place play-off. The match, which was played in scorching conditions, belied the score as it was a fairly tight affair with the victors scoring four of their six tries through their tight five.

Having been unlucky to be drawn against the eventual champions Malaysia on the opening day, India performed solidly under their new coaching team of Norman Lake and Hendre Marnitz with tries coming from Parvinder Singh, Hemant Kumar (2), Surinder Singh, captain Nasser Hussain and Bikash Jena.

Pakistan will be relegated to Division III for 2010, but despite that disappointment they can draw positives from blooding six new players in Malaysia and also the fact that they had significantly closed the gap from their meeting with India last year

Even though the results on the field were not great for Pakistan the importance of the tour will be seen in the development of Pakistan rugby

This years squad was made of mostly new players 6 players received there first cap and the team got a chance take advantage of Foreign coaching.

IRB and ARFU as part of Asian Rugby Development program had organized two professional coaches to work with Pakistan team. MR Chris Lloyd who is a coach of the London wasp and mr. Hugh who is the Scotland national team forwards coach

The team went over all aspect of the game with each skill and positional role outlined and defined from defense to attack from line out to scrums . it was great 10 days of intensive rugby for the national side . the results of the training and work will show in the future .

A couple of the players also took part in a Exhibition touch rugby match (china Malaysia Pakistan combined against the sponsors HSBC which also included the Famous England star MR Rory Underwood

The Pakistan vs India national team rivalry was also followed by the TV rugby documentary channel Total rugby. which also included a Good bad and ugly shoot out scene at the pool Pakistan captain for the India Pakistan Match Manan Vs Nasir Husain the Indian team captain.
the coaching and management staff on tour also gained from the advise and training from the IRB trainers and have come back eager to pass this on the rest of the players in Pakistan

The traveling squad consisted of the following players Front row Aftab Ashraf Qureshi , Taimur Zia Butt , , Bilal Mehmood Butt , Fouzan Majeed Wain , Salman Majeed Wain , Locks , Azmat Khan Niazi , , Back Row , Shakeel Ahmed , Muhammad Babar , Mansoor Rehan Scrum Half Zaheer Uddin Ahmed Khan Niazi , Umer Usman ,, Fly Half Juniad Malik , Umer Islam , Backs Kashif Khawaja (Captain) , Muhammad Manan Naseem (Vice Captain) ,Anwaar-Ul-Haq Zafar,Arsalan Zahid,,Siar Riaz , Hashim Niazi , Muhammad Shehbaz Muneer , Baber Shahzad

The following six players wore the Pakistan got to play for the nation team for the first time the six new caps were Moazzam Ali Shah ,M Yasir Fida , agha Nawazish ali , Syed Xeeshan Rizvi , Syed Usama Ahmed and M Junaid Liaqat

Team Manager on tour was Khuram Haroon , the coach was Mr. Rizwan Malik , and Physiotherapist is Rashid Hafeez

Paksitan Rugby union national team management is planning to spend the next few months working with the Pakistan 7s national team , the Pakistan development side and the National under 20 team with planed tour and possible home games for all of these teams.