Statistics: Tri-Nations
The Tri-Nations opened at Eden Park in Auckland with a magnificent win for New Zealand in a great display of intense, creative rugby. The Springboks, who beat the All Blacks three times last year, were not in the game.
Result
New Zealand vs South Africa, 32-12
Sanctions
Sanctionary Cards
Bakkies Botha (South Africa was the only recipient this week – for a deliberate infringement at a tackle near his line.
Cited and suspended
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) was cited for a headbutt in Jimmy Cowan (New Zealand), found guilty and suspended for nine weeks, i.e. the rest of the Tri-Nations.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
New Zealand vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 17
New Zealand: 12
South Africa: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Thorn, Mealamu, Jane, Kaino*, Donnelly, Ben Franks)
Offside: 4 (McCaw*, Cowan, Donnelly*, Ben Franks*)
Discipline: 2 (Read – air tackle; Muliaina – kicking ball away in touch)
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 3 (Matfield, Bakkies Botha*, Januarie)
Scrum: 2 (Du Plessis*, BJ Botha)
New Zealand missed a penalty kick at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 9/17 = 53%
Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs
In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 7 (3 quick)
Scrums: 8 (6 resets, 4 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
South Africa:
Line-outs: 11 (2 lost)
Scrums: 8 (2 resets, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 63
Scoring
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand: 4 (Conrad Smith, Nonu, Read, Woodcock)
South Africa: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 4/0
South Africa: 0/4
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/10
