Stats from Twickenham Test

England played New Zealand at Twickenham. At half-time the All Blacks led 12-3 and eventually won 32-6. We give some statistics from the match.

Sanctionary Cards

England probably established a record for them with four yellow cards and that at Twickenham. That means that for half of the match England played with 14 men.

One of them was against James Haskell for attacking Rodney So’oialo with a  swinging arm at a tackle/ruck. He should have had one for doing even worse to Bryan Habana the week before.

Recipients

Lee Mears – tackle infringement
James Haskell – dangerous tackle
Toby Flood – dangerous tackle
Tom Rees – tackle infringement

Penalties conceded

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

England vs New Zealand

Total number of penalties: 27

England: 18
New Zealand: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

England:

Tackle/ruck: 12 (Lipman, Flutey, Monye 2, Care** 2, Mears, Flood, Sackey*, Easter, Haskell, Rees)
Scrum: 2 (Payne, Hartley*)
Offside: 1 (Lipman)
Discipline: 3 (Care – +10; Haskell – swinging arm; Flood – high tackle)

New Zealand:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Williams 2, Tialata, So’oialo, McCaw)
Off-side: 1 (McCaw)
Scrum: 2 (Woodcock** 2)
Discipline: 1 (Thorn – +10)

New Zealand missed three penalty kicks at goal, England one.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 18/27 – 66%

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.

England vs New Zealand

England:

Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 10 (7 reset, 6 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 lost, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-outs)
Drop-outs: 3

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 12 (3 free kicks)
Scrums: 10 (3 resets, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 3

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 84

Advantage

Played: 10
Effected: 4

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

England vs New Zealand:

England: 0
New Zealand: 3

Tries/penalties scored

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

England: 0/2
New Zealand: 3/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 3/6

Kicks: 54

England: 27
New Zealand: 27

Tackle/ruck/maul: 141

Injuries: 7

England: 5
New Zealand: 2

Replacements: 14

England: 9
New Zealand: 5