South Africa played Australia at Newlands and won 29-17 in a Tri-Nations match. We give some statistics in this match.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There were three cards - all against Australia.

Matt Giteau (Australia) - dangerous tackle
Richard Brown (Australia) - repeated infringement by the team
George Smith (Australia) - professional foul

Recipients in Tri-Nations so far

JP Pietersen (South Africa) - high tackle
Isaac Ross (New Zealand) - offside at a tackle/ruck
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) - offside
Matt Giteau (Australia) - dangerous tackle
Richard Brown (Australia) - repeated infringement by the team
George Smith (Australia) - professional foul

Penalties conceded

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

South Africa vs Australia

Total number of penalties: 22

South Africa: 8
Australia: 14

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 4 (Brüssow, Spies, Botha 2)
Offside: 2 (Brüssow, Smit)
Scrum: 2 (Smit 2)

Australia:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 8 (Moore* 2, Baxter*, Brown*, ??, Giteau, Alexander*, Smith*)
Off-side: 1 (Mortlock*)
Scrum: 1 (Robinson)
Discipline: 4 (Smith* - obstruction; Giteau - air tackle; Giteau - dissent; Genia - man without ball)

South Africa missed a penalty kick at goal from 57 metres out.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 12/22 - 55%

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:
Line-outs: 15 (3 quick)
Scrums: 11 (3 resets, 4 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 2

Australia:
Line-outs: 19 (7 lost, 2 skew)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 51 (mark)
Drop-outs: 31

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 89

There were considerably more stoppages than in the first two Tri-Nations matches though the day was perfect for rugby.

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa: 1 (Matfield)
Australia: 2 (Ashley-Cooper, Giteau)

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 1/7
Australia: 2/0

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 3/7

Some 2009 totals

Results

New Zealand vs Australia, 22-16
South Africa vs New Zealand,  28-19
South Africa vs New Zealand,  31-19
South Africa vs Australia, 29-17

Tries scored

Australia: 1 + 2 = 4
New Zealand: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
South Africa: 2 + 1 + 1 = 4

Conversions scored

Australia: 1 + 2 = 3
New Zealand: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
South Africa: 0 + 1 + 0 = 1

Penalties conceded

Australia: 14 + 8 = 22
New Zealand: 10 + 11 + 14 = 35
South Africa: 4 + 7 + 5 = 16

Penalties scored

Australia: 3 + 0 = 3
New Zealand: 5 + 3 + 4 = 12
South Africa: 6 + 8 + 7 = 21

Drops scored

Australia: 0 + 1 = 1
New Zealand: 0 + 0 + 0 = 0
South Africa: 0 + 0 + 1 = 1

Free kicks conceded

Australia: 2 + 3 = 5
New Zealand: 3 + 2 + 0 = 5
South Africa: 1 + 5 + 1 = 7

Line-outs lost

Australia: 0 + 9 = 9
New Zealand: 4 + 3 + 4 = 11
South Africa: 1 + 1 + 0 = 2

Stoppages per match

New Zealand vs Australia: 77
South Africa vs New Zealand i: 62
South Africa vs New Zealand ii: 73
South Africa vs Australia: 89