Rugby - League and Union

a) General

Where markets on rugby matches or groups of matches are the same, in principle, as those on football matches or groups of matches, the principles set out in the section "Football" above will prevail. This applies equally to tournament markets. For example: in a market about time of the first try, where no try is scored the make-up will be 80 minutes regardless of any injury time added on.

b) Penalty Try

If a penalty try is awarded in a Rugby Union match, the shirt number of the tryscorer will be deemed to be eight.

If a penalty try is awarded in a Rugby League match, the shirt number of the tryscorer will be deemed to be that of the player awarded the penalty try. In the case of no player being awarded a penalty try in a Rugby League match, the shirt number of the tryscorer will be deemed to be seven.

c) Shirt Numbers

For the purposes of any bet about shirt numbers, a player will be deemed to wear throughout the game the shirt worn at the start of play (or, in the case of a substitute, when he comes on to the pitch).

Any player whose shirt number bears no number at the start (or, in the case of a substitute, when he comes on to the pitch) will be allocated number 16 for Rugby Union and number 14 for Rugby League.

If any player wears a shirt with letters instead of numbers, the alphabet is taken to correspond with numbers 1 to 26 e.g. A=1, J=10 etc.

If IG Index is in any doubt about the identity of a tryscorer, the settlement procedure set out in Football (d) will apply.

d) Named Tryscorers

Where a bet is offered about the identity of a specified number of tryscorers in a Rugby match:

i) Penalty tries do not count in a Rugby Union match, notwithstanding a broadcaster's decision to award them to a named player. In a Rugby League match, the penalty try will be credited to the player who has been awarded the penalty try. In the case of no player being awarded a penalty try in a Rugby League match, that penalty try will not count.

ii) In the event of uncertainty about the identity of a tryscorer, the settlement procedures set out in Football (d) will apply.

iii) Unless otherwise stated, a specified points allocation will be awarded to each of the named players who takes no part in the 80 minutes play, plus injury time.