Stats - Tri-Nations, Week 2
Tri-Nations took its drama =down to South Island and Carisbrook, the international venue nearest the South Pole where for the first time ever the Springboks won a Test. We have some statistics from the Test.
Sanctions
Victor Matfield received a yellow card for a high tackle. It was the third high tackle of the match after one by Schalk Burger early in the first half and one by Leon MacDonald in the second half at which stage the referee told the two captains that there would be no more high tackles. The penalty against Matfield was the only one conceded by South Africa in the second half.
After the match Bismarck du Plessis was cited for an action of his ]knuckles in the area of Adam Thomson’s eyes. Du Plessis was found guilty and suspended for three weeks.
Cards
Victor Matfield (South Africa) – high tackle
Citing with suspension
Brad Thorn (New Zealand) – an act contrary to good sportsmanship, suspended for a week.
Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa) – contact with the eyes or eye area
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
New Zealand vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 15
New Zealand: 8
South Africa: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
New Zealand:
Off-side: 3 (Thomson* 2, So’oialo*)
Discipline: 5 (Thomson – air tackle; So’oialo* – playing man without ball; O’Neill – playing man without ball; MacDonald – high tackle; Thomson* – air tackle)
Thomson conceded half of New Zealand’s penalties. Two of the penalties he conceded were for playing a player in the air.
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 1 (Van Niekerk*)
Off-side: 1 (Du Plessis*)
Discipline: 5 (Burger* – high tackle: Smith – late tackle; Januarie – obstruction; Jacobs – playing man without ball; Matfield – high tackle)
South Africa missed two penalty kicks at goal.
Free kicks conceded:
New Zealand: 7 (7 tackles, 1 scrum)
South Africa: 13 (6 tackles, 1 line-out)
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.
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 13
Drop-outs: 2
South Africa:
Line-outs: 14 (1 quick)
Scrums: 4 (1 collapse, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 7
Drop-outs: 3
The scrums were more orderly than usual with just one reset.
Of the free kicks, two were turned into scrums.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
New Zealand vs South Africa: 71
There were 10 fewer stoppages than in the first Test.
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand vs South Africa: 3
New Zealand: 1
South Africa: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 1/6
South Africa: 2/5
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 3/11
In the first Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 2/5
