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Full time2 August 2014
Russia
23–15
Zimbabwe
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2012Head-to-head

Russia won by 8 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’PRussia penalty · Yury Kushnarev3–0
  2. 9’TRussia try · Igor Klyuchnikov8–0
  3. 25’TRussia try · Denis Simplikevich13–0
  4. 30’TZimbabwe try · Lambert Groenewald13–5
  5. 31’CZimbabwe conversion · Guy Cronje13–7
  6. 49’PZimbabwe penalty · Guy Cronje13–10
  7. 52’TRussia try · Viktor Gresev18–10
  8. 53’CRussia conversion · Yury Kushnarev20–10
  9. 73’PRussia penalty · Yury Kushnarev23–10
  10. 81’TZimbabwe try · Tafadzwa Chitokwindo23–15

Line-ups

Russia

  1. 1Grigory TsnobiladzeProp
  2. 2Valery TsnobiladzeHooker
  3. 3Andrey IgretsovProp
  4. 4Alexander VoytovSecond row
  5. 5Andrey OstrikovSecond row
  6. 6Andrey GarbuzovFlanker
  7. 7Andrey TemnovFlanker
  8. 8Viktor GresevNumber 8
  9. 9Alexander IaniushkinScrum-half
  10. 10Yury KushnarevFly-half
  11. 11Denis SimplikevichWing
  12. 12Alexey MakovetskiyCentre
  13. 13Vasily ArtemyevCentre
  14. 14Mikhail BabaevWing
  15. 15Igor KlyuchnikovFull-back
  16. 16Stanislav SelskiiBench
  17. 17Innokentiy ZykovBench
  18. 18Artem FatakhovBench
  19. 19Pavel ButenkoBench
  20. 20Igor GalinovskiyBench
  21. 21Alexey ShcherbanBench
  22. 22Ramil GaisinBench

Zimbabwe

  1. 1Pieter JoubertProp
  2. 2Keith MurrayHooker
  3. 3Kevin NqindiProp
  4. 4Jan FerreiraSecond row
  5. 5Sanele SibandaSecond row
  6. 6Graeme LawlerFlanker
  7. 7Jacques LeitaoFlanker
  8. 8Lambert GroenewaldNumber 8
  9. 9Hilton MudarikiScrum-half
  10. 10Guy CronjeFly-half
  11. 11Shayne MakombeWing
  12. 12Daniel HondoCentre
  13. 13Riaan O'NeillCentre
  14. 14Tafadzwa ChitokwindoWing
  15. 15Danny RobertsonFull-back
  16. 16Matthew MandiomaBench
  17. 17Lawrence CleminsonBench
  18. 18Fortunate ChipenduBench
  19. 19Takunda ChifokoyoBench
  20. 20Kingsley LangBench
  21. 21Peter Du ToitBench
  22. 22Linience TambweraBench

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Context

All-time, Russia 3–0 Zimbabwe in 3 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Russia going in
Zimbabwe going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.