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

Stats: Mathew Hayden and Australia's record run.

Matthew Hayden is in some of the best form of his career and his 2 consecutive centuries highlight this. His world cup record 100 off 66 balls against South Africa was a show of power whereas his century against West Indies was more about timing before power. Against the West Indies he took 18 balls to get off mark before reaching his century off just 110 balls. Hayden went on to blast his way to a record score by an Australian at a World Cup going past Andrew Symonds' 143 in the last world cup. Hayden became only the second batsman to score more than 150 against West Indies.

Hayden now holds the record for:

• the highest score by an Australian in a ODI
• the highest score by an Australian in a world cup match
• the fastest century by an Australian in an ODI
• the fastest century in world cup history

Australia have scored 300+ runs in 6 consecutive matches which is a new record run.

Chappell-Hadlee Series Game 3

Mathew Hayden has blasted the highest score by an Australian in ODI history to lead Australia to 5/346 off their 50 overs in the 3rd and final match of the chappell-hadlee series.
All kinds of records tumbled as Hayden carried his bat to finsih 181 not out. He eclipsed Mark Waugh's 173 in the 2001/01 series to register the highest score by an Australian in ODI history.

Before today the highest by a player from any country in a one-dayer in NZ was 156 by Andrew Symond last year in the Chappell-Hadlee series.

Hayden hit 10 sixes to break the record for most sixes in an innings by an Australian which was 9, set by Ponting last year in that 430 odd score against South Africa. Hayden now sits in 8th place on the all-time list for highest individual score in ODIs.

Hayden's 181 came off just 166 balls with 11 fours and 10 sixes.
Watson chipped in with 68 off 69 balls as the openers put on 122 for the first wicket in 25 overs.

FoxSports Scorecard

CB Series final points table and selected stats.

Points Table

Team	P	W	L	NR	T	BP	Points	NRR	For	Against
Australia	8	7	1	-	-	3	31	+0.667	1860 / 355.3	1826 / 400
England	8	3	5	-	-	1	13	-0.608	1655 / 399.5	1702 / 358.3
New Zealand	8	2	6	-	-	1	9	-0.007	2016 / 400	2003 / 396.5

Finals
England won 2-0

Batting Stats
(These stats will feature more players from Australia and England than New Zealand and Aus and Eng played 2 extra games.)

Highest Average (Minimum 100 runs)
Name Inn NO Runs HS Avg
Oram 5 2 261 101* 87.60
Ponting 8 2 445 111 74.16
Collingwood 9 1 379 120 47.37
Hayden 10 1 387 117 43
Hodge 5 1 154 99* 38.50

Most Runs
Ponting 445
Hayden 387
Collingwood 378
Bell 292
Joyce 288
Taylor 282
Highest Strike Rates (minimum 4 innings)
Oram 124.28
Plunkett 109.43
Hodge 101.98
Gilchrist 95.27
Ponting 87.25
Flintoff 85.41

Highest Scores (clicking name/score will open the match scorecards)
Collingwood 120*
Hayden 117
Ponting 111
Joyce 107
Collingwood 106
Fleming 106
Ponting 104
Oram 10
Hodge 99*

Bowling Stats
Most wickets
Name M O W
McGrath 7 68 13
Plunkett 6 49. 5 12
Lee 7 68 12
Bracken 8 71.1 12
Flintoff 10 81.1 12
Bond 6 56.5 11
Best Averages(minimum 20 overs)
Anderson 20.62
Plunkett 23
McGrath 23.26
McMillan 24.24
Johnson 26
Best bowling in an innings
Flintoff 4/21
Vettori 4/24
Lewis 4/36
Anderson 4/42
Johnson 4/45
Bond 4/46