Saturday, October 8, 2011

Rugby-Japan team to play New Zealand in World Cup


AUCKLAND, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Japan coach John Kirwan has named the following team to play New Zealand in their rugby World Cup Pool A match at Waikato Stadium on Friday.

15-Taihei Ueda, 14-Takehisa Usuzuki, 13-Koji Taira, 12-Yuta Imamura, 11-Hirotoki Onozawa, 10-Murray Williams, 9-Atsushi Hiwasa, 8-Takashi Kikutani(c), 7-Michael Leitch, 6-Itaru Taniguchi, 5-Toshizumi Kitagawa, 4-Hitoshi Ono, 3-Nozomu Fujita, 2-Yusuke Aoki, 1-Naoki Kawamata.

Replacements 16-Hiroki Yuhara, 17-Kensuke Hatakeyama, 18-Yuji Kitagawa, 19-Sione Talikavili Vatuvei, 20-Tomoki Yoshida, 21-Shaun Webb, 22-Alisi Tupuailai. (Reporting by Alex Borthwick in Singapore; Editing by Peter Rutherford

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