TheBreakdown
Full time28 June 1987
Zimbabwe
18–9
USSR
Venue not recordedHead-to-head

Zimbabwe won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. –PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov
  2. –PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov
  3. –DUSSR drop goal · Oleg Sljussar

The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.

Line-ups

Zimbabwe

    USSR

    1. 1Boris SamardinProp
    2. 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
    3. 3Andrey KirpaProp
    4. 4Andrey SokolovSecond row
    5. 5Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
    6. 6Viktor KushnarevFlanker
    7. 7Ramil 'Roman' HairulinFlanker
    8. 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
    9. 9Igor FrantsuzovScrum-half
    10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
    11. 11Igor MironovWing
    12. 12Mihail ParshinCentre
    13. 13Igor NechaevCentre
    14. 14Vladislav VorapaevWing
    15. 15Evgeny ZuevFull-back
    16. Anatoly GonyaniBench
    17. Nicolay ZhuravlevBench
    18. Alexander StalmakhovichBench
    19. Valery MedvedBench
    20. Igor BorisovBench

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    Context

    All-time, Zimbabwe 2–2 USSR in 4 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

    Zimbabwe going in
    USSR 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.