Katich out, Hughes in. A stack of stats.

Update - 1:30pm. Pomting has won the toss. Australia will bat. Play to start at 2:00.  Playing sessions. 2:00-:3:40, tea 3:40-4:00, final session 4:00-7:00

(Update: Screenshot of weather radar, scroll down for stats)

Here is a screenshot of the Sydney weather radar. There is hardly any rain around. Surely they can play in drizzle? I have pointed out roughly where I think the SCG is.

Simon Katich has been ruled out of the 2nd test at Sydney with an elbow injury. Phillip Hughes will take his place and play his first test on home soil. Hughes was extremely unlucky to be dropped and I wish all the best. Let's hope he can walk in and score a century and show everyone how it's done.

Let's take a look at some stats:

Averages
Ricky Ponting averages 70.26 here with 1335 runs in 14 matches with a hige score of 207 and 5 centuries.
Hussey - 343 runs @ 85.75
Michael Clarke hasn't done so well on his home ground, only scorinf 270 runs @ 33.75 and being dismissed by spinners 6 times in 8 innings.

Average Innings scores
1st: 40.08
2nd: 41.81
3rd: 36.25
4th: 37.12

Top scores
Batsmen
R Foster (Eng) 287 - 1903
B Lara (WI) 277 - 1993
W Hammond (Eng) 251 - 1928
DWalters (Aus) 242 - 1969
S Tendulkar (Ind) 241*- 2004

Team
India 7d/705 - 2004
Australia 8d/659 - 1946
England 636 - 1928
Australia 619 - 1969
West Indies 606 -1993

Lowest scores
Australia 42 -1888 
England 45 - 1887
England 65 - 1895
England 77 - 1885 
West Indies 78 - 1952
The lowest score in the last 10 years is 144 by the World XI. Apart from that the lowest score lately is 147 by England in the 2006/2007 Ashes.



Best Bowling
Innings
G Lohmann(Eng) 8/35  - 1887
G Lohman (Eng) 8/58  - 1892
T Richardson (Eng) 8/94 - 1898
A Kumble (Ind) 8/141 - 2004
D Barlow (Eng) 7/40 - 1883