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Statistics from Day 4 of the Women’s World Cup

By Karen Bond

We bring you some interesting statistics after the semi finals and other playoff matches at the IRB Women’s Rugby World Cup 2006 in Edmonton, Canada.

* Scotland captain Paula Chalmers kicked the only drop goal of the Women’s RWC 2006 so far in her side’s narrow 11-10 defeat of Ireland to qualify for the fifth place playoff against the USA.

* The running points total for the Women’s RWC after four match days is 1,005 or an average of 41.9 per game.

* A total of 228 points were scored in the two semi finals and four other playoff games on Tuesday – the second lowest daily total so far in the tournament after 185 on the third day. This gives an average for the day of 38 per game.

* Samoa scored the most points on the fourth match day with 43 against South Africa, three more than defending champions New Zealand managed in their semi final victory over France. By contrast Ireland, France and South Africa all scored the fewest with 10.

* A total of 155 tries have been scored in the tournament at an average of 6.5 per game.

* New Zealand are the only team to have made their maximum seven replacements in each game, giving them a total of 28. This is two more than France. Kazakhstan have made the fewest with 18 across their four games.

* Canada full back Heather Moyse is the leading try scorer in the tournament with seven, one more than England wing Sue Day with France wing Catherine Devillers, Canadian flyer Maria Gallo and Black Ferns full back Amiria Marsh on four.

* Twenty-three penalties have now been kicked by nine of the 12 teams, Spain having kicked their first penalty of the tournament against Kazakhstan. Australia still lead the tally with five, one more than England and New Zealand.

* New Zealand have the best average points per game at 44.2 with Canada on 36.2 and England third highest with 34.8. By contrast South Africa an average of only 7.5 for their four games,
slightly worse than Spain’s 7.8.

* A total of 282 replacements have now been made by the 12 teams in the tournament.

* The Black Ferns and Canada lead the conversions tally with 15 of their 27 and 23 tries respectively having been turned into seven pointers. Next best are England with 11 and Australia on eight. By contrast South Africa have converted only one of their five tries.

* A total of 36 tries were scored on the fourth match day at an average of six per game – this is the second lowest daily tally after the 28 on the previous round. The highest tally was on match day two with 51 tries scored by the teams.

* The Black Ferns have conceded only 17 points in their four games – England are the next best on 30 points with USA third best on 47. By contrast South Africa have conceded 222 points in the tournament.

* Heather Moyse is the leading individual point scorer with 35, five more than England wing Sue Day and Australian full back Tobie McGann. Shelley Rae of England and New Zealand scrum half Emma Jensen have managed 29 points apiece.

* New Zealand remain the leading point scorers in the Women’s RWC 2006 with 177 in their four games, 32 more than Canada have managed with England third on 139. South Africa have scored the fewest with 30, one less than Spain have managed.

* England conceded more points against in their narrow semi final defeat of Canada [14] than they had done in a single match at this tournament – eight against France and South Africa.

* Canada captain Kelly McCallum tops the list with 13 conversions, four more than England fly half Shelley Rae and Black Ferns scrum half Emma Jensen.

* Defending champions New Zealand are the leading try scorers in the tournament with 27, four more than Canada have managed in their four games. Spain has scored the few
est with four.

* Only 15 of the 36 tries scored in the fourth day matches were converted – taking the total for the tournament to 79 which have been kicked by 22 different players – at an average of 3.3 per game.

* A total of 89 players have scored tries in this Women’s RWC so far.

* Australian full back Tobie McGann still heads the penalties table with four, one more than Grave Davitt of Ireland and Scotland captain Paul Chalmers.

* The Black Ferns conceded more points in their semi final [10] than they did across their three pool matches with Canada, Samoa and Scotland – seven and all by Canada in the opening game.

* Two yellow cards were handed out on match day four, taking the total for the tournament to 16 – all of them to different players. Samoa and Spain have each received three apiece, while New Zealand, Canada and England have not had a player sin-binned.

* Twelve different players have kicked the 23 penalties in the tournament so far.

* Samoa were the top try scorers on the fourth match day with seven against South Africa, one more than New Zealand managed against France. Scotland managed to corss the line only once in their win over Ireland.

* South Africa have conceded 35 tries on their Women’s RWC debut – an average of 8.75 tries per game. At the other end of the scale defending champions New Zealand have conceded only two and England four.

* Sarah Corrigan of Australia made a little piece of history as the first female to referee a Women’s RWC semi final match when she took charge of the England v Canada encounter.