The Stats Don't Lie: Numbers from the opening weekend

Heinrich Brussow of South Africa leads the Rugby World Cup is most tackles made. Photo / Getty Images

Here's what the learnt from the first weekend of action at the Rugby World Cup:

The Australians were the best at lineout wins against the throw, stealing five off the Italians.

South Africa's Heinrich Brussow was the top tackler with 22, followed closely by Argentina's Juan Manueal Leguizamon on 20.

The French made the most offloads in the tackle with a total of 17 in their game against Japan. Vincent Clerc is equal top offloader with Sonny Bill Williams, both having made four in their respective games.

Seven teams gained a bonus point in the opening weekend of Rugby World Cup 2011. Five sides managed to score for or more tries - they were New Zealand, France, Scotland, Australia, and Fiji. The two sides to score a point from their losses for finishing within seven points were Argentina and Wales.

Forty one tries at an average of 5.1 per game have been scored so far. The games with the most tries scored (8) were Fiji v Namibia and France v Japan. The game with the least number of tries scored was Argentina v England, with just a single try going to England.

Fiji's Vereniki Goneva is the top try scorer with four. Those to bag a brace in their opening games were Israel Dagg and Richard Kahui (both New Zealand), Simon Danielli (Scotland), James Arlidge (Japan) and Tommy Bowe (Ireland).

The largest winning margin was New Zealand's 41-10 win over Tonga, while the smallest margin was just one point in South Africa's 17-16 win over Wales.

Fiji's Seremaia Bai is the top goal kicker to date, having landed 8 from 9 for a kicking percentage of 88.89 percent and a personal tally of 19 points.

Argentina's Martine Rodriguez has the worst kicking stats managing to land just 2 attempts from 7 at the covered Otago Stadium on Saturday night.

Jonny Wilkinson also had an uncharacteristically bad night with the boot at the same stadium, with just 3 of his 8 attempts at goal successful.

Three drop goals have been scored so far, all going to Namibia's Theuns Kotze against Fiji.

The minnows made their presence felt with Romania pushing Scotland hard and briefly taking the lead in the 68th minute of their game. Likewise Japan, in the 58th minute of their game, were trailing France by just 3 points.

The first yellow card of the tournament has gone to English prop Dan Cole, while the first citation for foul play has also gone against another English player with Courtney Lawes due to front the judiciary for striking a player with the knee during the Pool B match against Argentina.

Canada, Georgia, Russia and Samoa are yet to play their first game of the tournament, and will do so on Wednesday and Thursday this week.