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Nathan Lyon, with 390 wickets, is the third-highest wicket-taker for Australia in Test cricket.© AFP
Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon has lofty plans to hitch a choose few greats to snare 500 Test wickets, with India the following workforce in his sights. Lyon, who turned 33 on Friday, at present has 390 scalps, behind solely Shane Warne (708) and Glenn McGrath (563) within the Australian pecking order. Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan holds the all-time report with 800 wickets. Despite Mitchell Swepson knocking on the door — and in Australia’s 17-man Test squad to face India — Lyon stays his facet’s primary spin possibility and he has no plans to relinquish it.
“I still feel I’m getting better and still feel like I’ve got a lot of cricket to offer Cricket Australia,” he stated in a Q&A with News Corp. readers late Thursday. “Definitely 500 (wickets) and beyond is on my radar.”
He stated he felt he was solely enhancing the older he received.
“I think it’s a craft we can’t afford to rush,” he stated. “It’s a craft you learn and you keep learning and you get better with age.”
Lyon will attain the 100-Test milestone in opposition to India in Brisbane ought to he, as anticipated, play the previous Tests in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, beginning on December 17.
The Adelaide Test will likely be his first since January as a consequence of Covid-19, a vacuum that has solely pushed his need to maintain going.
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“Without being able to play the game that you love so much and not being able to play that regularly, that’s driven my passion to get out there and that hunger to perform well again,” he stated.
“The most I’ve missed is that pressure that comes along with playing Test cricket. Missing that adrenaline.”
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