New Zealand and Australia opened the Tri-Nations at Eden Park on Saturday in a game which doubled as the first Bledisloe Cup match of the year. We give some statistics of the match.

Result

New Zealand vs Australia, 22-16; half-time - 13-10 to Australia

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

None.

Penalties conceded

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

New Zealand vs Australia

Total number of penalties: 24

New Zealand: 10
Australia: 14

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Hore*, McCaw* 2, Tialata, Conrad Smith* 3, Muliaina)
Offside: 1 (Thorn)
Discipline: 1 (Franks - striking an opponent)

Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Ashley-Cooper 2, Brown, George Smith* 2, Sharpe*, Moore* )
Off-side: 1 (Moore)
Scrum: 3 (Baxter 3)
Discipline: 3 (Robinson - dissent; Moore* - obstruction, George Smith - deliberate knock-on)

New Zealand  and Australia each missed two penalty kicks at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 15/24 - 63%

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 vs Australia

New Zealand:
Line-outs: 15 (4 lost)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 3

Australia:
Line-outs: 8 (1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 7 (2 resets, 6 collapses, 3 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 marks, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 4

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 77

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

New Zealand vs Australia: 2

New Zealand: 1 (McCaw)
Australia: 1 (Barnes)

Tries/penalties scored

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

New Zealand: 1/5
Australia: 1/3

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 2/9