Emphatic victory at Kai Tak in their second Asia Championship outing puts them on brink of historic qualification
Hong Kong’s men are one win from qualifying for a World Cup for the first time, after a comfortable 78-7 victory over Sri Lanka at Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground on Sunday.
A dominant forward display was more than enough to overcome sloppy mistakes against a team returning to the Asia Rugby Emirates Men’s Championship for the first time in more than a decade.
Luke van der Smit’s hat-trick of tries from No 8 and his man-of-the-match award rather summed up a game that was largely over from the moment Calum Scott finished off a driving maul with 11 minutes gone.
Van der Smit’s second made it 14-0, and his third moments before the final whistle put the exclamation mark on a thoroughly one-sided affair.
