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Stats: First November Tests

By Paul Dobson
Monday 9 Nov 2009

Australia beat England at Twickenham and New Zealand beat Wales in Cardiff. We give some statistics from the matches.

Sanctions

There were no yellow cards though Daniel Carter was cited for an unpunished high tackle.

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

* = points conceded

(i) England vs Australia

Total number of penalties: 17

England: 6
Australia: 11

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

England:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Wilson, Hipkiss*, Thompson, Croft)
Off-side: 1 (Banahan)
Scrum: 1 (Bell*)

Australia:

Tackle/ruck: 8 (Smith, Ioane, Palu, Chisholm*, Alexander, Giteau, Moore, Mumm)
Scrum: 1 (Robinson)
Discipline: 1 (Hynes* – dangerous tackle)
Undetermined: penalty at a line-out

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) Wales vs New Zealand

Total number of penalties: 20

Wales: 9
New Zealand: 14

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 8 (Halfpenny** 2, Powell, Shane Williams, Rees, Roberts, Ryan Jones, Charteris*)
Discipline: 1 (Martyn Williams – deliberate knock-on)

New Zealand:

Tackle/Ruck: 8 (Read, Leonard, McCaw*, Eaton, Tialata & Smith*, Carter, Kaino*, Guildford* )
Off-side: 2 (Tialata, Hore)
Scrum: 4 (Crockett 2, Tialata 2)
Discipline: 3 ()

Wales 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:

England vs Australia: 12/17 = 71%
Wales vs New Zealand: 16/23 = 70%

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.

(i) England vs Australia

England:

Line-outs: 16 (2 lost, 1 reset)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 1

Australia:

Line-outs: 15 (3 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (1 reset, 4 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0

(ii) Wales vs New Zealand

Wales:

Line-outs: 16 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 4 (2 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 14 (2 reset, 3 collapses, 1 penalty, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

England vs Australia: 70
Wales vs New Zealand: 70

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) England vs Australia: 2

England: 0
Australia: 2 (Genia, Ashley-Cooper)

(ii) Wales vs New Zealand: 1

Wales: 0
New Zealand: 1 (Hore)

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

Australia: 2/2
England: 0/2
New Zealand: 1/4
Wales: 0/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 3/12

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