Penalty to South Africa as Esteves does not roll away. They set up a lineout. South Africa looking rusty early on, passes not going to hand.

South Africa knock the ball on from the kickoff. Portugal early scrum.

The teams are on the field, kickoff is seconds away.

Hello and welcome to the Dubai leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series, we look forward to plenty fast and exciting rugby over the course of today and tomorrow. First up we have South Africa taking on Portugal. These teams having played each other 22 times with the Blitz Bokke winning 21 and Portugal claiming only one victory to date. The average score in this fixture is 29 points to 6, however in 7's anything can happen.