Statistics: Tri-Nations, Round Five

New Zealand hosted Australia at AMI Stadium, once called Lancaster Park, in Christchurch and won 20-10, securing the Bledisloe Cup and needing just a bonus point to be certain of winning the Tri-Nations for 2010. We give some statistics.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

Alleluia! For the first time in this year's Tri-Nations 15 played 15 for 80 minutes and there was no aftermatch citings. What a relief. Tony Woodcock may also be relieved as he could well have spent time off.

Recipients of yellow cards in Tri-Nations so far

Bakkies Botha (South Africa) - tackle infringement
Danie Rossouw (South Africa) - kick
Jaque Fourie (South Africa - dangerous tackle
Quade Cooper (Australia) - dangerous tackle
BJ Botha (South Africa - tackle infringement
Own Franks (New Zealand) - armless tackle
Drew Mitchell (Australia) - armless, late tackle
Drew Mitchell (Australia) - preventing a quick throw-in by slapping the ball out of an opponent's hand.

Cited and Suspended in Tri-Nations so far

Bakkies Botha (South Africa) for a headbutt - suspended for nine weeks
Jean de Villiers (South Africa) for a tip tackle - suspended for two weeks
Jaque Fourie (South Africa for a dangerous tackle - suspended for four weeks
Quade Cooper (Australia) for a dangerous tackle - suspended for two weeks

Penalties conceded

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

New Zealand vs Australia

Total number of penalties: 17

New Zealand: 11
Australia: 6

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 7 (Owen Franks 2, Thorn, Woodcock, Smith, McCaw, Sam Whitelock)
Offside: 2 (Nonu & Owen Franks*, Mathewson)
Scrum: 1 (Owen Franks)
Discipline: 1 (Woodcock - man without ball)

Australia:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Genia* 2, Elsom, Pocock 2, Hodgson*)

Australia conceded just one penalty in the first half.

Each side 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: 13/17 - 76%

Getting possession - line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs

In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.

New Zealand:
Line-outs: 13 (1 lost, 1 skew, 3 quick)
Scrums: 10 (2 resets, 3 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

Australia:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 6 (3 resets, 3 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 69

Scoring

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

New Zealand: 2 (Muliaina, Smith)
Australia: 1 (Beale)

Tries/penalties scored

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

New Zealand: 2/2
Australia: 1/2

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

Some Totals in the 2010 Tri-Nations

Penalties conceded per country

Australia: 7 + 11 + 6 = 24
New Zealand: 12 + 9 + 13 + 11 = 45
South Africa: 5 + 9 + 10 = 24

Tries scored per country

Australia: 2 + 3 + 1 = 6
New Zealand: 4 + 4 + 7 + 2 = 17
South Africa: 0 + 2 + 2 = 4

Disciplinary sanctions per country

Australia: 4Y, C
New Zealand: Y
South Africa: 4Y, 3 C

Y = yellow card
C = citing and suspension