India women's national rugby union team

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see India men's national rugby union team.

India
Shirt badge/Association crest
UnionRugby India
Head coachNaas Botha
CaptainVahbiz Bharucha
First colours
World Rugby ranking
Current50 (as of October 2024)
First international
 Singapore 30–5 India 
(Singapore 2 June 2018)
Biggest win
 Singapore 19–21 India 
(Calamba, Philippines 19 June 2019)
Biggest defeat
 Singapore 30–5 India 
(Singapore 2 June 2018)

The India women's national rugby union team is the national team representing India in women's international rugby union. They played their first test against Singapore in 2018.[1] They have only played four Tests to date and are ranked 50th by World Rugby.[2]

Record

Overall

For information about the status of international games, see Women's international rugby union § International women's matches.

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: India internationals 2018-
Opponent First game Played Won Drawn Lost Percentage
 Philippines 2018 2 0 0 2 0.00%
 Singapore 2018 2 1 0 1 50.00%
Summary 2018 4 1 0 3 25.00%

Full internationals

Won Lost Draw
Test Date Opponent PF PA Venue Event Ref.
1 2018-06-02  Singapore 5 30 Queenstown Stadium, Singapore 2018 ARWC D1 [3][4]
2 2018-06-05  Philippines 5 19 Queenstown Stadium, Singapore 2018 ARWC D1 [3][4][5]
3 2019-06-19  Philippines 27 32 Southern Plains Sports Field, Calamba 2019 ARWC D1 [6][7][8][9]
4 2019-06-22  Singapore 21 19 Southern Plains Sports Field, Calamba 2019 ARWC D1 [10][11]

References

  1. ^ "About Us". Rugby India. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Indian women's rugby team captain Vahbiz Bharucha optimistic of the sport's future". Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Asia Rugby Women's Championship Div 1". Asia Rugby. 27 May 2018. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Women's Asia Rugby Championship - Division 1". RugbyArchive.net. 8 June 2018. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  5. ^ "India vs Philippines". World Rugby. 5 June 2018. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  6. ^ "China crowned champions as India claim historic win". Women.Rugby. 22 June 2019. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Asia Rugby Women's Championship Div 1". Asia Rugby. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Women's Asia Rugby Championship - Division 1". RugbyArchive.net. 3 August 2019. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Philippines vs India". World Rugby. 19 June 2019. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Rugby : Singapore slip down rankings after India's historic win". Sportsbeatsindia. 25 June 2019. Archived from the original on 27 June 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  11. ^ "China crowned champions as India claim historic win". women.rugby. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
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