‘Small Blacks’ give Tuskers a Rugby lesson at Nittawela. Brilliant running rugby reduces locals to an awe- inspiring experience. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor). If there was lessons learnt in rugby, Sri Lanka’s Tuskers can reflect on an awakening of how to construct a win with a simple mindset, and a focus on basics, taught to them by the mini All Blacks, or ‘Small Blacks ‘ as I choose to call them, in Nittawela. The historic contest between the two nations which attracted a mammoth rugby following from the hill country, lived upto all expectations as the young brigade from one of the best Rugby Union nations in the world, showed how it can to be done. Lesson one was to nullify the home crowd advantage by scoring first, they did that twice, then going to work on securing victory which they carried out like the ...
