Blitzbok duo picked in Dubai Dream Team

South Africa’s Springbok Sevens side were crowned the Emirates Airline Dubai Seven winners with a deserved 26-14 victory over Olympic and World Series champions Fiji in the final over the weekend.

This is after the Blitzboks’ stunning 26-14 win over defending series, Dubai and Olympic Games champions Fiji. “This team is incredible the last two weeks with the girls it’s just been awesome, our new management they have been incredible I’m just so proud to be a part of this team”.

Former New Zealand captain DJ Forbes is hoping some of the winning culture he helped establish will be transferred to a new generation as he prepares to break the Sevens World Series appearances record in Dubai this week.

Portia Woodman got things going for the Black Ferns burning the cover defence on the outside to give New Zealand a 5-0 lead from which they never looked back. Kelly Brazier was named HSBC Player of the Final.

“Papua New Guinea rugby is in a pretty good place at the moment”, Cook said.

However, their first match saw them defeat South Africa 20-7, with an Emma Tonegato hat-trick ensuring their tournament defence got off to the ideal start.

For instance, the player microphone footage trialled at the London Sevens in May will be a permanent fixture, and fans can revel in plenty more social media interaction – understandable, given that 50 million fans were reached in just six days across the Olympics through those channels. We know that we disappointed in Rio and we know we had the potential to win gold. This team is incredible.

Charlie Hayter took a reverse pass from Bibby out wide and cut inside to score after two minutes as England took the initiative before the try-scorer was sent to the sin-bin for a late tackle.

Micheal Wokorach, Lawrence Ssebuliba and Phillip Wokorach all touched once in Uganda’s last game against Canada in Dubai.

They started the campaign with a 38-5 win over South Africa and accounted for Russian Federation 20-7, before playing USA.

The second round will be played out in Cape Town on December 10 and 11. “For me, all those factors make them heavy favourites to win the series”.

They Australia women’s sevens side face France in the Cup quarter final on day two, to be broadcast live on Fox Sports at 5.06pm on Friday.

Australia finished in fifth place while US raised the men’s Challenge Trophy with a 28-14 win over Samoa, the highlight Perry Baker’s attractive first half chip-and-chase try which delighted the crowd.