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Scotland’s Deaf team drew with England's Deaf 27-all at Braidholm, Glasgow, on Saturday but were awarded the Kolkata Cup on the grounds of scoring more tries than England had done.
Scotland scored five tries to three.
Kolkata Cup? Scotland and England have played for the Calcutta Cup since 1878. Recently the name has become Indian at Kolkata. The magazine Rugby World presented the Kolkata Cup for competition between England and Scotland in Deaf Internationals. This was the first one.
Scotland centre, Mike Tweedie (Edinburgh Accies), was named man of the match by two neutral observers from the Welsh Deaf Rugby Union.
Tweedie was among Scotland’s try scorers alongside Boroughmuir’s Grant Rutherford (2), Roddy Matheson (Whitecraigs) and Jamie Hislop (Newton Stewart).
Scotland had led 20-3 at one point before England clawed back to 20-17 at the interval. In the second-half, Scotland’s fifth try, which was converted, reopened a gap but a penalty and converted try in the 80th minute meant that England drew level 27-all.
Scottish Deaf Rugby’s next international is against their Welsh counterparts, the reigning Deaf World Champions, in Edinburgh in February over the weekend of the Scotland-Wales RBS Six Nations International.
Scotland Deaf International Rugby Team squad:
Backs: Grant Rutherford (Boroughmuir), Roddy Matheson (GHK), David Sanderson (Perthshire), Donald Snodgrass (Haddington), Stephen Farmer (Clydesdale), Graham McCue (Kilmarnock), Mike Tweedie (Edinburgh Accies),
Murdo Ross (Cowal), Nick Firth (Cowal), Graeme Phinnery (Beckenridge), Hamish Nish (Hawick YM)
Forwards: Jamie Hyslop (Newton Stewart), David Brown (Peebles), Andrew Adamson (Preston Lodge FP), Willie Cook (Leith), Stuart Hay (Bedford), Alan Stern (GHA), Drew Murray (Cartha Queen’s Park), Neil Houston (Cowal), Neil Bell (Annan), Adam McCormack (Whitecraigs), Andy Flavell (Perthshire), Kevin Wyness (Ellon), Andy Tedd (Ardrossan Accies), Andy Crozier (GHA), Sandy Cuthbertson (Strathendrick), John McLaughlin (Cambuslang), Gavin Reid (West of Scotland), John Muirhead (Kilmarnock)
Referee: Paul Sleeman (Wales)
Scotland’s Deaf team drew with England's Deaf 27-all at Braidholm, Glasgow, on Saturday but were awarded the Kolkata Cup on the grounds of scoring more tries than England had done.
Scotland scored five tries to three.
Kolkata Cup? Scotland and England have played for the Calcutta Cup since 1878. Recently the name has become Indian at Kolkata. The magazine Rugby World presented the Kolkata Cup for competition between England and Scotland in Deaf Internationals. This was the first one.
Scotland centre, Mike Tweedie (Edinburgh Accies), was named man of the match by two neutral observers from the Welsh Deaf Rugby Union.
Tweedie was among Scotland’s try scorers alongside Boroughmuir’s Grant Rutherford (2), Roddy Matheson (Whitecraigs) and Jamie Hislop (Newton Stewart).
Scotland had led 20-3 at one point before England clawed back to 20-17 at the interval. In the second-half, Scotland’s fifth try, which was converted, reopened a gap but a penalty and converted try in the 80th minute meant that England drew level 27-all.
Scottish Deaf Rugby’s next international is against their Welsh counterparts, the reigning Deaf World Champions, in Edinburgh in February over the weekend of the Scotland-Wales RBS Six Nations International.
Scotland Deaf International Rugby Team squad:
Backs: Grant Rutherford (Boroughmuir), Roddy Matheson (GHK), David Sanderson (Perthshire), Donald Snodgrass (Haddington), Stephen Farmer (Clydesdale), Graham McCue (Kilmarnock), Mike Tweedie (Edinburgh Accies),
Murdo Ross (Cowal), Nick Firth (Cowal), Graeme Phinnery (Beckenridge), Hamish Nish (Hawick YM)
Forwards: Jamie Hyslop (Newton Stewart), David Brown (Peebles), Andrew Adamson (Preston Lodge FP), Willie Cook (Leith), Stuart Hay (Bedford), Alan Stern (GHA), Drew Murray (Cartha Queen’s Park), Neil Houston (Cowal), Neil Bell (Annan), Adam McCormack (Whitecraigs), Andy Flavell (Perthshire), Kevin Wyness (Ellon), Andy Tedd (Ardrossan Accies), Andy Crozier (GHA), Sandy Cuthbertson (Strathendrick), John McLaughlin (Cambuslang), Gavin Reid (West of Scotland), John Muirhead (Kilmarnock)
Referee: Paul Sleeman (Wales)