Nathan Lyon enters Test top ten with legend’s tag
Nathan Lyon enters Test top ten with legend’s tag. After Victory of Australia by 10 wickets in their first test match of the series against Sri Lanka at the Galle international stadium. Australian Off-spinner Nathan Lyon joined the list of top-10 test wicket-takers of all time.
The match was quite easy for Australia as Lyon took 4 wickets in the second innings which led Sri Lanka all out at just 113 leaving a small target for Australia of just 5 runs, and the match got over in the 4th ball of the first over. Nathon Lyon took a total of 9 wickets in the match and took a 5 wicket haul in the first innings.
Meanwhile, Lyon is in the 10th position in the list of all-time test wicket-takers with 436 test wickets and joined the list with Sri Lanka’s great spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, India’s anil Kumble and Ravichandran Ashwin and late Australian leg spinner Shane Warne.
Nathan Lyon is just 3 wickets away to cross Dale Steyn and needs 6 more wickets to cross Ravichandran Ashwin.
A quick match summary
Sri Lankan Captain won the toss and decided to bat first. But Nathan Lyon’s performance of 5/90 put Sri Lanka on the backfoot and got all out at 212 runs, after that Australia scored 321 runs off 10 wickets.
On day three where Srilanka decided to counterattack but again failed as Lyon and head came in their way. Srilanka could only stand for 22.5 overs which is the lowest in the history of test cricket and got all out at 113 leaving a Target of just five runs.
In the second innings both Lyon and head took 4 wickets after that David Warner didn’t take a lot of time and finished the match quickly in the first over smashing 2 boundaries. With the amazing performance of Nathan Lyon Australia won their first match at Galle in 11 years.