This time round the Kenyan Rugby team has just lost his fine touch of the ball. The claws of the team are being reduced to nothing by most teams in the rugby series. What is really happening to our rugby team?
Something must be really wrong, In the Dubai series the team did not play to standards falling to various defeats from different teams.
The same losing track has been extended to South Africa sevens series.
Kenya’s Shujaa lost their opening Pool “C” match of the Cape Town Sevens 29-12 to England.
Dan Norton claimed a hat-trick of tries for England while Phil Burgess had one. Kenya replied through Cyprian Kuto and Leonard Mugaisi whose try was unconverted.
HERE IS HOW THEY LINED UP
At one point though, it seemed Shujaa had a surprise in their bags clawing the scores to 12-12, but they could not hold on their end of the rope to the final whistle, the English picking maximum points.
The speedy Dan Norton destroyed the young Kenyan side with his prowess dotting down twice to dampen Kenya’s hopes of a quarter final slot.
Ethan Waddleton opened the scoring dotting down after a quick start to a set piece that found the Kenyan backline napping and the conversion went through to give England a 7-0 lead.
However, Murunga’s men responded with Cyprian Kuto who had been called in to replace Oluoch offloading under the posts after skipper Eden Agero started a set-piece swinging the ball to the right.
But the English ensured they took the lead i
Kenya though had a chance to draw level after play dragged for two minutes after the hooter, but Agero knocked on when Kenya was in attack.
Coming through the second half, Murunga had instructed his boys to kick and chase despite the fatigue to try and take advantage of England’s holes in defense and that tact paid off when Mugaisi did just that and landed the ball, though the try had to be confirmed by the TMO.
But Norton slapped in a response in similar fashion as though sarcastic, kicking and chasing the ball behind the Kenyan defense to take England 17-12 up.
The experienced Norton completed his hattrick in superb fashion, his speed and footwork dummying three Kenyan chasers who were left sprawling on the ground ad England went 22-12 up.
Phil Burgess came off the bench to drive the final nail on Kenya’s coffin, dotting down with the smallest of spaces and the conversion going through for a 29-12 final score.
THE NEXT MATCHES FOR SHUJAA TEAM
