What a grand occasion - South Africa vs New Zealand at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday afternoon - a noisy, colourful crowd of over 85,000 and on the field drama as the New Zealand score 12 points in the last two minutes to win. We give some stats, a boring thing to do of such an exciting occasion.

We have added a statistic this week - ball-in-play time.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

For the second time in the 2010 Tri-Nations there were no sanctionary cards - not even nearly one in what was the most honourable Tri-Nations match so far this year.

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

Nobody was cited.

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.

South Africa vs New Zealand

Total number of penalties: 17

South Africa: 8
New Zealand: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Spies, Steyn*, Matfield*, Steenkamp, Louw, De Jongh)
Discipline: 2 (De Jongh - high tackle; Van der Linde - obstruction)

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Muliaina 2, Read*, Franks*, McCaw, Vito)
Off-side: 1 (Read* at a maul)
Scrum: 1 (Woodcock*)
Discipline: 1 (Rokocoko* - late shoulder charge)

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: 12/17 - 71%

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.

South Africa:
Line-outs: 6 (1 skew, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (4 resets, 2 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 2

New Zealand:
Line-outs: 8 (3 lost)
Scrums: 6
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 56

Ball-in-hand time (first half + second half = total): 16 minutes 42 seconds + 18 minutes 26 seconds =35 minutes 8 seconds

Scoring

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa: 1 (Burger)
New Zealand: 3 (Woodcock, McCaw, Dagg)

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 1/5
New Zealand: 3/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/9

Some Totals in the 2010 Tri-Nations

Penalties conceded per country

Australia: 7 + 11 + 6 = 24
New Zealand: 12 + 9 + 13 + 11 + 9 = 54
South Africa: 5 + 9 + 10 + 8 = 32

Tries scored per country

Australia: 2 + 3 + 1 = 6
New Zealand: 4 + 4 + 7 + 2 + 3 = 20
South Africa: 0 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 5

Disciplinary sanctions per country

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

Y = yellow card
C = citing and suspension

Ball-in-hand time (first half + second half = total):

New Zealand vs South Africa: 18 minutes 52 seconds + 20 minutes 15 seconds = 39 minutes 7 seconds
New Zealand vs South Africa: 17 minutes 34 seconds + 20 minutes 05 seconds = 37 minutes 39 seconds
Australia vs South Africa: 18 minutes 17 seconds + 19 minutes 20 seconds = 37 minutes 37 seconds
Australia vs New Zealand: 13 minutes 15 seconds + 19 minutes 50 seconds = 33 minutes 5 seconds
New Zealand vs Australia: 18 minutes 1 second + 20 minutes 10 seconds = 38 minutes 11 seconds
South Africa vs New Zealand: 16 minutes 42 seconds + 18 minutes 26 seconds = 35 minutes 8 seconds