Statistics: Currie Cup Final
The Sharks outplayed Western Province to win Saturday’s Currie Cup Final 30-10. We give some statistics from this match in Durban.
Spectators
52,000.
In Port Elizabeth on Friday night there were 45,000 when Eastern Province played the Pumas in a promotion-relegation match.
In Hong Kong there were 26,000 when Australia beat New Zealand.
In Christchurch, Canterbury played Wellington in an ITM Cup semifinal. There were 7 000 spectators.
In Auckland, Auckland played Waikato in a semifinal. There were 10,200 spectators.
South Africans still turn up.
Sanctions
Sanctionary cards
There were no cards, yellow or red.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Sharks vs Western Province
Total number of penalties: 21
Sharks: 10
Western Province: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Sharks:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 8 (Terblanche*, Bismarck du Plessis 2, Kankowski, Alberts, Hargreaves, Strauss, Kockott)
Offside: 1 (Hargreaves)
Discipline: 1 (Hargreaves – air tackle)
Western Province:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 9 (Habana*, De Villiers 2, Francois Louw 2, Harris*, Fondse, Aplon 2)
Discipline: 2 (Aplon* – striking an opponent; Burger – high tackle)
Sharks and Western Province each missed two penalty kicks at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 17/21 – 81%
That is exceptionally high.
Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs
In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.
Sharks:
Line-outs: 3 (1 lost)
Scrums: 12 (2 resets, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Western Province:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 3
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 59
Ball in play: 17 minutes 43 seconds + 18 minutes17 = 36 minutes 00 seconds
This is six minutes longer than it was in play in the Bledisloe Cup but then the scrums were not as messy.
Using possession
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Sharks: 3 (McLeod, Lambie 2)
Western Province: 1 (Burger)
Tries/penalties scored: 3/3
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Sharks: 3/3
Western Province: 1/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/4
Kicks
Sharks: 15
Western Province: 9
Passes
Sharks: 116
Western Province: 161
Runs
Sharks: 113 times for 574 metres
Western Province: 122 times for 651 metres
Over advantage line
Sharks: 43
Western Province: 38
Line breaks
Sharks: 1
Western Province: 2
Tackles made
Sharks: 131
Western Province: 144
Tackles missed
Sharks: 39
Western Province: 35
Rucks won
Sharks: 138
Western Province: 120
Turnovers won
Sharks: 12
Western Province: 9
