WRWC 2010: Matchday three statistics

(IRB.COM) Sunday 29 August 2010

Sweden's fans were out in force on day three, but couldn't cheer their team to a first win at WRWC 2010 - Photo: Martin Seras Lima

We bring you some interesting statistics following the a dramatic final round of pool action at Women's Rugby World Cup 2010.

New Zealand, England and France topped their respective pools and are joined in the semi finals by Australia, the best second placed team across the three pools.
Defending champions New Zealand will face France in the first semi final at the Twickenham Stoop on Wednesday, before hosts England tackle Australia hoping to avoid the floods of tears they were in after the Wallaroos beat them in the RWC Sevens 2009 Cup quarter finals in Dubai.
Canada, Ireland, USA and Scotland will contest the fifth to eighth places, while South Africa, Wales, Sweden and Kazakhstan play-off for ninth to 12th positions in the final standings.
New Zealand, England and France are the only unbeaten sides left in the tournament after the pool stages, while Sweden, Kazakhstan and Wales are still looking for their first win of WRWC 2010.
Surrey Sports Park was again a sell-out on day three of the tournament.
Of the four semi finalists, Pool C winners France have scored the fewest points with 55, the seventh highest in the tournament and significantly less than half those accumulated by England (146) and New Zealand (128).
England enjoyed both the highest score and biggest winning margin of the WRWC 2010 pool stages with their 82-0 Pool B defeat of Kazakhstan on day two.
Scotland picked up their first win of Women's Rugby World Cup on day three, beating Sweden 32-5 to avoid finishing bottom of Pool C.
Kazakhstan scored their first points of WRWC 2010 with full back Aigerym Daurembayeva's penalty in a 37-3 loss by Ireland, but remain the only team not to score a try in the tournament so far.
Kelly Brazier's hat-trick on day three means she is now the leading point scorer at WRWC 2010 with 32, four more than Australian wing Nicole Beck and England fly half Katy McLean. Christy Ringgenberg, the USA fly half, is next best on 26 points - all of which came on day one against Kazakhstan.
England, Ireland and Scotland are the only sides not receive a yellow card in the pool stages. Australia, by contrast, have had five players sin-binned - albeit none in their 62-0 defeat of South Africa on day three - while Canada, USA and South Africa have all received four cards.
The Black Ferns have now won 17 matches in a row on the Women's Rugby World Cup stage, their only loss coming in the 1991 semi finals at the hands of eventual winners USA.
We are still awaiting the first drop goal of Women's Rugby World Cup 2010.
USA remain the leading point scorers in WRWC history with 976, ahead of New Zealand - who have played a tournament less than their nearest rivals after missing the 1994 edition - on 924 and England on 887.
The average number of tries per match at WRWC 2010 is 6.61, with slightly more of these coming in the first half - 3.44 to 3.17 in the second half.
Six players are currently heading the try charts with four in the pool stages - New Zealand duo Carla Hohepa and Kelly Brazier, Canada flyer Heather Moyse, Fiona Pocock of England, Scotland centre Lucy Millard and Irish number 8 Joy Neville.
The average number of penalties per match is exactly one.
England are the leading point scorers at WRWC 2010 with 146 with New Zealand (128) the only other side to have broken through the 100-point barrier. Australia's emphatic win over South Africa leaves them on 93, just ahead of Canada (85).
Forty-three tries were scored on day three - taking the total for the tournament to 119 - although only 16 of them were turned into seven pointers.
England fly half Katy McLean leads the way with 11 conversions, one more than Nicole Beck who boosted her tally by converted seven of Australia's nine tries against South Africa in a 17-point haul.
Kelly Brazier became the fifth player to score a hat-trick at WRWC 2010 in the Black Ferns' 41-8 win over Wales. She follows in the footsteps of teammate Carla Hohepa, Canada's Heather Moyse and England duo Fiona Pocock and Charlotte Barras.
A total of 266 points were scored on day three, taking the tally for the tournament to 763.
Seventy-one players have scored tries at WRWC 2010 so far.
New Zealand and England have both averaged 7.33 tries per match in the pool stages after touching down 22 times, significantly better than anyone else with Australia the next best with 4.67.
England have converted 15 of their 22 tries, in comparison to only nine of New Zealand's 22 being turned
Sweden have kicked the most penalties at WRWC 2010 with four, all of them by their inspirational captain Ulrika Andersson-Hall.
A total of 18 penalties have been kicked at Women's Rugby World Cup 2010.
Kazakhstan have conceded 170 points in two matches, with South Africa the only other side to concede more than a century of points (127) after their heavy loss to Australia.
England conceded their first points of WRWC 2010 with Nathalie Marchino and Phaidra Knight's tries for the USA. The Black Ferns of New Zealand have only had 16 points - including two tries scored against them in the tournament.
Phaidra Knight of the USA and South Africa's Namhla Siyolo are on the only players to receive two yellow cards in the tournament to date.
There have been no red cards so far at Women's Rugby World Cup 2010.