West Indies v Aust Test by the numbers

FACTS, FIGURES AND POTENTIAL RECORDS AHEAD OF SECOND TEST BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND WEST INDIES

Overall: Played 114; Australia 57, WI 32, tied 1, drawn 24

In Melbourne: Played 14; Australia 10, WI 3, drawn 1

In Australia: Played 64; Australia 36, WI 18, tied 1, drawn 9

Australia's record in 2015: Played 12; won 7, lost 3, drawn 2

WI's record in 2015: Played 9; won 1, lost 7, drawn 1

Last series: Australia 2-0 in 2015

Forecast for Friday: Cloudy with risk of thunderstorms and 90 per cent chance of rain. Top of 20C

Likely teams:

Australia: David Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Adam Voges, Mitch Marsh, Peter Nevill, Peter Siddle, Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon

West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite, Rajendra Chandrika, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Jermaine Blackwood, Denesh Ramdin, Jason Holder (capt), Carlos Brathwaite, Kemar Roach, Jerome Taylor, Jomel Warrican

Potential records and notable numbers:

*Australia haven't lost a Test series to the West Indies since 1992-93, when the visitors won a five-match bout 2-1. In that stretch Australia have won nine of 10 series

*With the exception of Test series wins over Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, West Indies haven't won an away series since touring New Zealand in 1994-95

*David Warner and Steve Smith are locked in a tight battle to score more Test runs in 2015. Warner has 1277, seven more than Smith. Alastair Cook tops the table with 1357

*Peter Siddle has taken 23 Test wickets at the MCG at an average of 24.43. Dennis Lillee holds the record with 82

*There will be at least two Victorians in Australia's attack. Only once in the past 15 years has that happened on Boxing Day, when Siddle played alongside James Pattinson in 2011.