IND vs AUS 2nd Test: India and Australia are locking horns in the second Test of the four-match series in Delhi. Australia made 263 in the first innings, while Nathan Lyon scripted India's top and middle order collapse in India's reply.
AUS vs WI 1st Test: The Australian team defeated the West Indies side in the first Test of the two match series by 164 runs. The second Test will be played on 8th December.
Lyon joined legspinner Shane Warne, who took 708 test wickets between 1992 and 2007, and paceman Glenn McGrath, who took 563 between 93-'07, as the only Australians to surpass the 400-wicket barrier in test cricket.
Ricky Ponting earlier said that Paine's inclusion in the team would 'inevitably' be a distraction and the drama was 'not going to go away'.
Following criticism in Australian media over alleged involvement in the 2018 Ball-tampering scandal, Pat Cummins Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon came together to quash such rumours in a joint statement.
Lyon also said that he ranks current skipper Tim Paine among the best he has played under and thinks the wicketkeeper-batsman is not going anywhere.
Nathan Lyon also said that he would love to bring the curator of the pitch at Ahmedabad to the SCG.
Lyon became only the 13th Australian player to have played 100 Tests.
Gill recalled how Australian players tried to intimidate him during the Sydney Test by sledging but he trusted his instincts and got over it.
In a heartfelt gesture, Ajinkya Rahane presented Nathan Lyon a signed jersey on the latter's 100th Test, following India's win over Australia at The Gabba.
Rohit had attempted to clear the midwicket region but succumbed to the flighted delivery from Lyon, and eventually miscued the shot.
Australia skipper Tim Paine has said he is not worried about the lack of wicket-taking form of Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc as he took the blame on himself for squandering opportunities to deny them wicket.
Former Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan believes that India's Ravichandran Ashwin can touch his 800-wicket record in Tests.
Lyon also said that the slow Sydney wicket did not allow him to bring the secret delivery during the drawn third Test.
Australia are not going to have an advantage, believes Nathan Lyon, despite playing the series-deciding fourth Test against an injury-ravaged Indian team at a venue where the home team's record is second to none.
Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj has set a new standard for calling out poor crowd behaviour, Australia's top off-spinner Nathan Lyon said, describing cricket as a sport for all with no room for racism or abuse of any form.
Lyon acknowledges that the stand-in Indian skipper was extremely good against him in the Boxing Day Test and the spinner has chalked out plans against Rahane for the Sydney Test.
The Oz spinner has called on the Indian team to 'stop complaining' about harsher restrictions for the fourth Test in Brisbane and 'suck it up and get on with it'.
After finishing at an intimidating position on Day 2, Rahane's men will be eyeing to mount a healthy lead over the hosts.
Lyon said that Australia have a couple of more surprises lined up for Pujara, who proved a major nemesis for the side on India's previous tour Down Under.
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