Tri-Nations, Week 2, Statistics
The Tri-Nations opened with two exciting matches, one at Newlands and one in Durban. We give some statistics of the Durban match.
We give some Tri-Nations stats accumulatively.
Soudsure are again a great help with the statistics.
Sanctionary Cards
The only recipient this week was Pedrie Wannenburg for illegal play at a tackle just moments after he had come on as a substitute.
Recipients
Week 1: Pierre Spies (South Africa)
Week 2: Pedrie Wannenburg (South Africa)
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
South Africa vs New Zealand
Total number of penalties: 11
South Africa: 7
New Zealand: 4
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Burger, Skinstad*, Pienaar, Bakkies Botha, Wannenburg)
Off-side: 1 (Skinstad)
Discipline: 1 (Skinstad – fighting)
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Flavell*, Muliaina*, Mealamu*)
Discipline: 1 (Flavell – air tackle)
New Zealand missed three penalty kicks 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 New Zealand: 8/11 = 72,7%
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 New Zealand
South Africa:
Line-outs: 12 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 12 (5 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 5
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 18 (3 lost, 3 quick, 1 reset)
Scrums: 4 (2 reset, 2 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
South Africa vs New Zealand: 72
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
South Africa vs New Zealand: 153
Kicks per match
There was a large number of kicks. This does not measure the quality of the kicking, of course. A kick becomes a good kick where and when you next get possession. If Steyn kicks and the Springboks next get the ball to kick off after a try, Steyn’s kick was not a good kick. If Rokocoko kicks and the All Blacks next get the ball when MacDonald sends Rokocoko in for the winning try, that’s a good kick!
South Africa vs New Zealand: 81
South Africa: 41
New Zealand: 40
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 New Zealand: 20 (12)
Hold-ups for injury:
South Africa vs New Zealand: 4
Substitutions/replacements:
South Africa vs New Zealand: 9
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
South Africa vs New Zealand: 4
South Africa: 2
New Zealand: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
South Africa: 2/3
New Zealand: 2/3
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/6
In Week 1 the ratio was 2/7
In Week 2 the ratio was 4/6
Totals per week
Penalties
South Africa vs Australia: 6 + 7 = 13
South Africa vs New Zealand: 7 + 4 = 11
Australia vs New Zealand:
Australia vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:
Tries
South Africa vs Australia: 1 + 1 = 2
South Africa vs New Zealand: 2 + 2 = 4
Australia vs New Zealand:
Australia vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:
Kicks
South Africa vs Australia: 29 + 36 = 65
South Africa vs New Zealand: 41 = 40 = 81
Australia vs New Zealand:
Australia vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:
Stoppages
South Africa vs Australia: 67
South Africa vs New Zealand: 68
Australia vs New Zealand:
Australia vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:
Penalties conceded per team
Australia: 7
New Zealand: 4
South Africa: 6 + 7 = 13
Tries per team
Australia: 1
New Zealand: 2
South Africa: 1 + 2 = 3
