2000 Test Matches

Team Info

France

Previous Game:

1999 Mediterranean Cup - Game 3 vs. Italy

Next Game:

2000 World Cup - Round 1 vs. Papua New Guinea

Out:

Yacine Dekkiche (fullback), Laurent Frayssinous (five-eighth), Jason Sands (front row), Abderazak El Khalouki (front row), Pierre Sabatié (second row), Eric Frayssinet (bench)

In:

Frederic Banquet (fullback), Renaud Guigue (wing), Rachid Hechiche (front row), Jean-Christophe Borlin (second row), Didier Cabestany (bench), Jerome Vincent (bench)

Changes:

Arnaud Dulac (centre to five-eighth), Claude Sirvent (wing to bench), Pascal Jampy (second row to bench), Frederic Teixido (bench to front row), Jean-Emmanuel Cassin (bench to centre), Romain Sort (bench to second row)

Russia

Previous Game:

1995 Emerging Nations Cup - Game 3 vs. USA

Next Game:

2000 World Cup - Round 1 vs. Fiji

Out:

Alexander Otradnov (fullback), Rinat Chamsoutdinov (wing), Dmitriy Rojkov (wing), Andrei Sheglov (five-eighth), Alexander Kolikov (front row), Sergei Gridnev (hooker), Andrei Ermolaev (front row), Yury Sergeev (second row), Viktor Kouton (second row), Leonid Kiriakov (lock), Grigor Shein (bench), Pavel Kalachkine (bench)

In:

Vadim Smirnov (fullback), Oleg Sokolov (wing), Andrey Dumalkin (centre), Viatcheslav Artachine (front row), Aleksandr Lysenkov (hooker), Vadim Postnikov (front row), Andrei Zubov (second row), Ilgiz Galimov (second row), Sergei Romanov (bench), Kirill Kulemin (bench), Igor Jiltsov (bench), Yevgeny Buyukov (bench)

Changes:

Maxim Romanov (centre to lock), Robert Ilyasov (bench to wing), Viktor Nechaev (bench to five-eighth)