Jonny Wilkinson will make his long-awaited return for England in this weekend's RBS 6 Nations Championship opener against Scotland at Twickenham - and statistics show just how his country have missed him in the pivotal fly-half position.

England enjoyed an 82% success rate over the 52 games of his Test career - but of the 46 matches he has missed since early 1998, the world champions lost 23.

Wilkinson also averages more than 15 points per game, having firmly established himself as England's record scorer with a total of 817.

Saturday's Scotland clash will be his first England appearance at Twickenham since a 2003 World Cup warm-up appointment with France.

Since his last England outing - the 2003 World Cup final victory over Australia - England have won just 12 times from 30 starts.

ENGLAND WITH JONNY WILKINSON

1998: Ireland (h) won 35-17, Australia (a) lost 0-76, New Zealand (a) lost 22-64.

1999: Scotland (h) won 24-21, Ireland (a) won 27-15, France (h) won 21-10, Wales (a) lost 31-32, Australia (a) lost 15-22, USA (h) won 106-8, Canada (h) won 36-11, Italy (h) won 67-7, New Zealand (h) lost 16-30, Fiji (h) won 45-24, South Africa (a) lost 21-44.

2000: Ireland (h) won 50-18, France (a) won 15-9, Wales (h) won 46-12, Italy (a) won 59-12, Scotland (a) lost 13-19, South Africa (a) won 27-22, Australia (h) won 22-19, Argentina (h) won 19-0, South Africa (h) won 25-17.

2001: Wales (a) won 44-15, Italy (h) won 80-23, Scotland (h) won 43-3, France (h) won 48-19, Ireland (a) lost 14-20, Australia (h) won 21-15, South Africa (h) won 29-9.

2002: Scotland (a) won 29-3, Ireland (h) won 45-11, France (a) lost 15-20, Wales (h) won 50-10, Italy (a) won 45-9, New Zealand (h) won 31-28, Australia (h) won 32-31, South Africa (h) won 53-3.

2003: France (h) won 25-17, Wales (a) won 26-9, Italy (h) won 40-5, Scotland (h) won 40-9, Ireland (a) won 42-6, New Zealand (a) won 15-13, Australia (a) won 25-14, France (h) won 45-14, Georgia (a) won 84-6, South Africa (a) won 25-6, Samoa (a) won 35-22, Wales (a) won 28-17, France (a) won 24-7, Australia (a) won 20-17.

Played 52, Won 43, Lost 9.

Success rate: 82%.

ENGLAND WITHOUT JONNY WILKINSON

1998: New Zealand (a) lost 10-40, South Africa (a) lost 0-18, Netherlands (h) won 110-0, Italy (h) won 23-15, Australia (a) lost 11-12, South Africa (a) won13-7.

1999: Tonga (h) won 101-10.

2000: South Africa (a) lost 13-18.

2001: Canada (a) won 22-10, Canada (a) won 59-20, USA (a) won 48-19, Romania (h) won 134-0.

2002: Argentina (a) won 26-18.

2003: Wales (a) won 43-9, France (a) lost 16-17, Uruguay (a) won 111-13.

2004: Italy (a) won 50-9, Scotland (a) won 35-13, Ireland (h) lost 13-19, Wales (h) won 31-21, France (a) lost 21-24, New Zealand (a) lost 3-36, New Zealand (a) lost 12-36, Australia (a) lost 15-51, Canada (h) won 70-0, South Africa (h) won 32-16, Australia (h) lost 19-21.

2005: Wales (a) lost 9-11, France (h) lost 17-18, Ireland (a) lost 13-19, Italy (h) won 39-7, Scotland (h) won 43-22, Australia (h) won 26-16, New Zealand (h) lost 19-23, Samoa (h) won 40-3.

2006: Wales (h) won 47-13, Italy (a) won 31-16, Scotland (a) lost 12-18, France (a) lost 6-31, Ireland (h) lost 24-28, Australia (a) lost 3-34, Australia (a) lost 18-43, New Zealand (h) lost 20-41, Argentina (h) lost 18-25, South Africa (h) won 23-21, South Africa (h) lost 14-25.

Played 46, Won 23, Lost 23.

Success rate: 50%.