In this round of Tri-Nations action, New Zealand played South Africa in windy, wet Wellington and won with a bonus point as again South Africa suffered disciplinary problems. We give some statistics.

Result

New Zealand vs South Africa, 31-17

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There again a yellow card this week - for Danie Rossouw (South Africa) for a light kick against Richie McCaw.

Recipients in Tri-Nations so far

Bakkies Botha (South Africa) - tackle infringement
Danie Rossouw (South Africa) - kick

Rene Ranger and Richie McCaw were probably lucky not to be yellow-carded - Ranger for an armless tackle that was more violent than Rossouw's kick and McCaw for repeated infringements at the tackle, two close to his line.

Cited and suspended

Jean de Villiers (South Africa) - for a tip tackle

Cited and suspended 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

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 18

New Zealand: 9
South Africa: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 7 (McCaw* 5, Nonu, Read)
Offside: 1 (Messam)
Discipline: 1 (Ranger - armless tackle)

Five penalties against one player at the tackle is an inordinate number.

South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 7 (Louw* 2, Burger, Kirchner* 2, BJ Botha, Smit)
Discipline: 2 (Rossouw - kick; Pienaar - deliberate knock-on)

New Zealand 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: 14/18 - 78%

This is a high percentage.

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: 9 (4 lost, 1  quick)
Scrums: 5 (4 resets, 4 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0

South Africa:
Line-outs: 7
Scrums: 10 (2 resets, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 58

This is a remarkably low number.

Scoring

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

New Zealand: 4 (Nonu, Muliaina, Ranger, Dagg)
South Africa: 2 (Rossouw, Burger)

Tries/penalties scored

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

New Zealand: 4/3
South Africa: 2/1

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 6/4

Tackles

Made

New Zealand: 77
South Africa: 90

Missed

New Zealand: 9
South Africa: 16

Rucks & Mauls

New Zealand: 84
South Africa: 71

Turnovers lost

New Zealand: 8
South Africa: 11