Talk about Ugandan rugby and the name Philip Wokorach will always surface up. He’s one of the best Ugandan rugby players ever and he showcased this at the recently concluded Rugby Sevens in the Commonwealth Games.
Wokorach averaged a try per game at these games. Further, he also added thirteen conversions at a success rate of fifty-nine per cent in the six matches he played. This was fifty-six points in total a thing that put him on top the individual overall scoring statistics chart.
It was only two other players in the entire competition that managed to hit 50+ points. These were Waisea Nacuqu of Fiji (52) who won silver and Angelo Davids (50) who won gold with South Africa.
Before this year’s event, the best Uganda had ever done was when they scored twelve tries in New Delhi in 2010. They passed this tally in the ninth-place quarterfinal against Sri Lanka and went ahead to double it by the end of the final.
Wokorach further was Uganda’s top try scorer with 6 tries. He was followed by Aaron Ofoywroth (5 tries) and the captain, Michael Wokorach who had four tries, including a hat trick against Sri Lanka.
The rest of Uganda’s tries were scored by Timothy Kisiga (2), Adrian Kasito (2), Ian Munyani (2), Ayera Desire (1), William Nkore (1), and youngster Karim Arinaitwe (1).
