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The return of Scotland to Rugby World Cup 7
Shooting from behind 26-0 with just over four minutes of 14-minute ERA, the Scots seemed dead and buried in the knockout tournament against the Kenyans.
However, Harvey Elms tried to give a glimmer of hope and John Dalziel's men never gave up.
A second try came from skipper Scott Riddell – this one turned by Robbie Fergusson – A penalty of seven points was followed by a penalty
A Kenyan was marked with a yellow card for stopping Elms' goal when the penalty was given, but they were still 26-19 late and time was pbading
managed to sneak in the corner for the fourth try of the Scots and Fergusson has kept his courage to abandon the corner conversion to make 26-26.
At this point, the Kenyans had lost the plot and had been reduced to five men with a second yellow card. Before, in added time, Farndale was entering the opposite corner for a dramatic winner.
Head coach Dalziel said, "I'm really relieved, we've been watching the barrel for a while, but I feel that in times like this you find out what you have as a group
"We have a young team that really gathered ground and we said all week that there is something going on with this team.
"They learned a lot of difficult lessons and were on the wrong side of things in every series and it was their moment." 19659003 "I thought the impact on the bench was exceptional, we knew that Jack Cuthbert and Max McFarland would have a say at half-time and in the second half Jack and Jamie worked on the restart and Robbie's footing earned us a key possession.
"But we know how disappointed we were to get out of the main competition."
Fergusson added, "I'm a little lost for words. Once Kenya received the first yellow card, we knew we had a chance, but we all had to come together to pbad the line. "
Earlier in the game, Kenyans were only twice in the Scottish half."
A try from the kickoff of the second half put them 19- 0 and when to try No. 4 came and was converted they had one foot in the last eight – before the amazing reversal.
The Scots had to regroup and face South Africa in the last eight hours late last night in the UK South Africans beat Ireland 45-7 at their last meeting.
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