The India national rugby sevens team is a minor national sevens side.India has also qualified for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[1]
Sevens was first played in India in 1886 at the Khajjiar Gymkhana.[2]
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2003 | Arabian Gulf | ||||||
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2008 |
width=200 | Team | width=20 | Pts | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | L | width=20 | GW | width=20 | GL |
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6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 72 | 5 | ||||||||
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 31 | ||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 89 | ||||||||
December 10
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41–0 | |||||
48–0 | |||||
31–5 |
As the host nation, India received automatic qualification into the Sevens tournament. They were placed in Group B along with giants of the game South Africa, Wales and Tonga.[3] [4]
Group B
width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=20 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=25 abbr="Points difference" | PD | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 5 | +104 | 9 | ||||||||||
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 99 | 35 | +64 | 7 | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 45 | 72 | −27 | 5 | ||||||||||
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 153 | −141 | 3 |
October 11, 2010
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56–7 | |||||
59–0 | |||||
38–5 |
Bowl Quarter Final