Uruguay on course

At Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo, Uruguay beat Kazakhstan 44-7 in a Rugby World Cup qualifier on Saturday to stay in contention for the 2011 World Cup.

They now play Romania in two legs, the winner qualifying for Pool B.

At half-time Uruguay led 20-0.

The scorers:

For Uruguay:
Tries: Leivas 3, Crosa, Penalty try
Cons: De Freitas, Caffera 4
Pens: Caffera 2, De Freitas

For Kazakhstan:
Try: Abdrazakou
Con: Nozhkin

The teams:

Uruguay: 15 Ivo Dugonjic, 14 Leandro Leivas, 13 Martín Crosa, 12 Juan De Freitas, 11 Gastón Mieres, 10 Emiliano Caffera, 9 Manuel Martínez, 8 Nicolás Brignoni, 7 Alfredo Giuria, 6 Mathias Braun, 5 Matías Fonseca, 4 Diego Magno, 3 Pablo Lemoine, 2 Carlos Arboleya (captain), 1 Alejo Corral.
Replacements:  16 Edgardo Benítez, 17 Juan Pedro Rombys, 18 Martin Espiga,19 Juan Carlos Bado, 20 Juan Pablo Horta, 21 Juan Martin Llovet, 22  Santiago Gortari.

Coach: Gonzalo Camardón

Kazakhstan: 15 Sergey Nozhkin, 14 Denis Molochniy, 13 Alexander Zaharov, 12 Ildar Abdrazakov, 11 Sergey Konev, 10 Daulet Akymbekov, 9 Ahmetzhan Baratov, 8 Anton Ruddy, 7 Timur Mashurov (captain), 6 Grigoriy Ivanchenko, 5 Serik Zhanseitov, 4 Evgeniy Shekhrov, 3 Vladimir Chernykh, 2Arman  Mussulmankulov, 1 Mihail Bzhitskih.
Replacements: 16 Azat Abishev, 17 Sergey Menshikov, 18 Tairzhan Arzhev, 19 Evgeniy Sheshin,, 20 Roman Sorokodzyhba, 21 Ilya Poplavskiy, 22 Evgeny Zabaiyakin.

Coach: Evgeny Zuev

Date: Saturday, 17 July
Referee: Francisco Pastrana (Argentina)