FACTS, FIGURES AND POTENTIAL RECORDS AHEAD OF AUSTRALIA V INDIA THIRD TEST:
Overall: Played 88; Australia 40, India 24, tied 1, drawn 23
At MCG: Played 11; Australia 8, India 2, drawn 1
Australia's record in 2014: Played 8; won 5, lost 3, drawn 0
Forecast for Boxing Day: Partly cloudy with a top of 18C, 50 per cent chance of showers
Australia XI: David Warner, Chris Rogers, Shane Watson, Steve Smith (capt), Shaun Marsh, Joe Burns, Brad Haddin, Mitchell Johnson, Ryan Harris, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood
Potential India XI: Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt), Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant Sharma
NOTABLE NUMBERS:
* Joe Burns becomes the 441st man to play Test cricket for Australia
* Nathan Lyon has 132 Test wickets. With nine more scalps he will draw level with Australia's most prolific offspinner Hugh Trumble
* Shane Watson may not be among the runs this series, but his Test average at the MCG is 89.60. He has scored 448 Test runs at the MCG - more than any other venue
* Mitchell Johnson needs 22 more scalps this series to celebrate his 300th Test wicket. The only other Australians to have reached that milestone are Shane Warne (708), Glenn McGrath (563), Dennis Lillee (355) and Brett Lee (310)
* India have not won a Test at the MCG since 1981.
Share
