TheBreakdown
Full time11 November 2016
Russia
19–15
Zimbabwe
Hong Kong Football Club Ground, Hong Kong, Hong Kong China · Cup of Nations 2016Head-to-head

Russia won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. 17’TRussia try · Viktor Gresev5–0
  2. 18’CRussia conversion · Ramil Gaisin7–0
  3. 31’TRussia try · Viktor Gresev12–0
  4. 32’CRussia conversion · Ramil Gaisin14–0
  5. 35’PZimbabwe penalty · Linience Tambwera14–3
  6. 37’TRussia try · Denis Simplikevich19–3
  7. 41’PZimbabwe penalty · Linience Tambwera19–6
  8. 42’PZimbabwe penalty · Linience Tambwera19–9
  9. 44’PZimbabwe penalty · Linience Tambwera19–12
  10. 57’PZimbabwe penalty · Linience Tambwera19–15

Line-ups

Russia

  1. 1Andrei PolivalovProp
  2. 2Stanislav SelskiiHooker
  3. 3Innokentiy ZykovProp
  4. 4Evgeny ElginSecond row
  5. 5Bogdan FedotkoSecond row
  6. 6Viktor GresevFlanker
  7. 7Tagir GadzhievFlanker
  8. 8Pavel ButenkoNumber 8
  9. 9Konstantin UzunovScrum-half
  10. 10Ramil GaisinFly-half
  11. 11Rushan IagudinWing
  12. 12Dmitry GerasimovCentre
  13. 13German DavydovCentre
  14. 14Denis SimplikevichWing
  15. 15Vasily ArtemyevFull-back
  16. 16Valery TsnobiladzeBench
  17. 17Valery MorozovBench
  18. 18Azamat BitievBench
  19. 19Vladimir SuslovBench
  20. 20Danila ChegodaevBench
  21. 21Anton RyabovBench
  22. 22Yury KushnarevBench
  23. 23Vladimir RudenkoBench

Zimbabwe

  1. 1Denford MutamangiraProp
  2. 2Matthew MandiomaHooker
  3. 3Brian MakamureProp
  4. 5Michael PassaportisSecond row
  5. 6Biselele TshamalaFlanker
  6. 7Andrew RoseFlanker
  7. 8Njabulo NdlovuNumber 8
  8. 9Kuzivakwashe KazembeScrum-half
  9. 10Linience TambweraFly-half
  10. 11Stephan HunduzaWing
  11. 12Riaan O'NeillCentre
  12. 13Kudzai MashawiCentre
  13. 14Tafadzwa ChitokwindoWing
  14. 15Lungile TshumaFull-back
  15. 20Witness MandizhaSecond row
  16. 4Lawrence CleminsonBench
  17. 16Irvin NduwaBench
  18. 17Tolerance ZisheBench
  19. 18Joshua GandoBench
  20. 19Connor PritchardBench
  21. 21Tapfuma ParirenyatwaBench
  22. 22Tichafara MakwanyaBench
  23. 23Bradley EllseBench

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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.