Stats for SA vs Namibia

It was an historic occasion at Newlands, the very first Test between South Africa and another African country, one which the Springboks won 105-13.

Soudsure are again a great help with the statistics.

Sanctionary Cards

None.

Penalties conceded

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

South Africa vs Namibia

Total number of penalties: 16

South Africa: 7
Namibia: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Gary Botha, Du Randt*, Du Plessis)
Off-side: 3 (Willemse 2, James)
Discipline: 1 (Du Randt* – obstruction)

Namibia:

Tackle/ruck: 1 (Nieuwenhuis)
Off-side: 2 (Nieuwenhuis, Langenhoven)
Scrum: 3 (Lensing* 3)
Discipline: 3 (Nieuwenhuis* – high; Du Toit- collapsed maul; Undetermined – collapsed maul)

Namibia 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:

South Africa vs Namibia: 4/16

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.

South Africa vs Namibia

South Africa:

Line-outs: 18 (1 skew)
Scrums: 11 (3 collapsed, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 1

Namibia:

Line-outs: 12 (5 lost)
Scrums: 8 (1 collapse, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

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

South Africa vs Namibia: 70

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

South Africa vs Namibia: 132

Kicks per match

South Africa vs Namibia: 47

South Africa: 21
Namibia: 26

Advantage

Here we give the number of times in the match the referee allowed advantage. (The figure in brackets is the number times the advantage actually accrued.)

South Africa vs Namibia: 22 (9)

Hold-ups for injury:

South Africa vs Namibia: 7

Substitutions/replacements:

South Africa vs Namibia: 13

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa vs Namibia: 16

South Africa: 15
Namibia: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 15/2
Namibia: 1/2

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 16/4