Hurricanes storm in despite triple yellow

Super Rugby Pacific round-up
By BEN JAYCOCK

Hurricanes overcame a poor second half in which they conceded three yellow cards to beat Fijian Drua 38-15 and stretch their winning start to eight matches to end their opponent’s unbeaten record at home.
Clark Laidlaw’s table toppers were impressive in the first half, scoring four tries to lead 28-7.
However, in the second half they spent almost 10 minutes with 13 men when DuPlessis Kirifi (high tackle) and Isaia Walker-Leawere (persistent infringing) were sin-binned.
Replacement prop Caleb Delany also saw yellow for the same offence as Walker-...

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