Lyon eclipses Warne with magical bowling spell

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Nathan Lyon has continued to soundlessness his critics with a terrific show of rotation bowling to enactment Australia wrong touching region of winning the third Test against India.

Lyon whitethorn not person the enigma of immoderate of his off-spinning counterparts, namely India's Ravichandran Ashwin, but displayed conscionable however effectual his power and subtle variations tin be, ripping retired 8 Indian wickets successful the 2nd innings.

The 35-year-old stymied the location side's hopes of posting a daunting 4th innings target, arsenic India was bowled retired for 163 successful its 2nd dig, leaving Australia needing conscionable 76 runs successful its 2nd innings triumph the 3rd Test.

AS IT HAPPENED: Australia vs India 3rd Test Day Two

Lyon finished with 8-64 successful 23.3 overs arsenic helium enactment a stranglehold connected each azygous 1 of India's batters. Six of his 8 wickets came without the assistance of a fielder.

It was Lyon's 2nd eight-wicket haul successful Test cricket, with the different besides coming against India during Australia's past circuit to the state successful 2017.

Lyon has present done thing adjacent Shane Warne could not negociate during his storied career, becoming the archetypal Australian spinner to assertion an eight-wicket haul connected aggregate occasions successful Test cricket.

The different 3 men to person done truthful for Australia - Bob Massie, Craig McDermott and Glenn McGrath - were each pacemen.

Lyon present has 113 wickets successful 25 Tests against India, with 53 of those coming connected Indian soil. He has 5 five-wicket hauls successful 10 Test appearances successful India.

The second-innings haul gave Lyon a tally of 17 wickets crossed the past 2 matches, a sensational turnaround from a disappointing archetypal Test wherever helium was outbowled by debutant off-spinner Todd Murphy.

This time, determination was nary doubting who was the maestro successful Australia's rotation attack, arsenic Lyon wrestled backmost the momentum whenever India looked to beryllium getting connected top.

India's batters tried each method to interruption retired of the shackles, but to a man, astir each of them came undone.

Shubman Gill was Lyon's archetypal victim, with the brash young opener bowled portion charging down the wicket.

Lyon past displayed his superb variations by getting balls to skid connected arsenic helium trapped Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin lbw. KS Bharat was besides a unfortunate of a consecutive one, cleanable bowled from astir the wicket.

Through the carnage, 1 antheral stood gangly for India, their stone astatine No.3: Cheteshwar Pujara.

It was somewhat ironic that the 2 titans who person been written disconnected clip and clip again, Pujara and Lyon, were the 2 shining lights successful a warfare of attrition connected time two.

On a transportation wherever nary of his teammates person looked settled, Pujara toggled betwixt the gears expertly. He defended with a consecutive bat erstwhile required, played with brushed hands erstwhile required, and utilized his feet brilliantly to some rotate the onslaught and find the boundary.

Eventually it took a infinitesimal of magic to disregard Pujara, arsenic Steve Smith took a drawback that volition beryllium replayed implicit and implicit for years to come.

Pujara's dismissal with India's pb sitting connected conscionable 67 efficaciously ended the location side's hopes of posting a triple-figure people for Australia, with the last 3 wickets falling for conscionable 8 runs.

While Pujara admitted that his side's pb of 75 runs was "not enough", India volition inactive judge they tin assertion the unlikeliest of victories owed to the frailties shown by Australia's batters passim this series.

Those frailties were evident successful the opening league connected time two, arsenic the tourists mislaid their past six wickets for conscionable 11 runs.

Another illness similar that connected time 3 conscionable mightiness doom them.

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