BHUBANESWAR 29-Sep-2007 112
Jungle Crows of India defeated South Africa in the final 19-5 of the Touraid Under-14 International School Rugby Tournament at Scottish Rugby Club in London today. Earlier, Jungle Crows registered four wins in a row to storm into the final.
In the 10-nation tournament, Jungle Crows posted their four wins in group-B, defeating Zambia 10-0, Swaziland 19-12, Kenya 36-0 and Romania 36-0. In group-A, South Africa also won all of their four group matches, beating Cambodia, Rwanda, Moldova and Kazakhstan.
The tournament was organised by Touraid, a charitable trust created to help children from disadvantaged background. Jungle Crows are a Kolkata-based team, represented exclusively by the students of local Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).
The KISS boys hail from the remote tribal pockets of Orissa. Some of them belong to primitive tribes like Bondo and Lodha. The squad was pretty unfamiliar with the sport and was initiated into it just four months back.
