Welcome to the 57th Singapore Cricket Club International Rugby 7s tournament. Your timing is perfect as this is likely to be the most closely contested of any tournament yet. There are no fewer than 10 teams which could win a title which is proving harder and harder to win, year by year.
Just consider some of the statistics - no New Zealand side has won the Ablitt Cup for the last two years. This is something of an anomaly given New Zealand's unprecedented honour roll when it comes to 7s at all levels no other side, for example, has won the IRB International Series since it began. Here at SCC, however, the Ablitt Cup is proving difficult for Kiwis to grasp. If a New Zealand team does not win this year, that will equal the longest losing phase by New Zealand sides since the competition went truly international in 1982.
