Super Lyon surpasses Warne with historic wicket

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Nathan Lyon was an Adelaide Oval groundsman earlier ditching the roller and donning a baggy green.

So it was fitting that the seasoned Australian off-spinner became Adelaide Oval's highest Test wicket-taker connected Friday.

When Lyon removed West Indian Jermaine Blackwood caught and bowled during the nighttime league of time two, helium surpassed Shane Warne arsenic the highest Test wicket-taker astatine the South Australian venue.

AS IT HAPPENED: Second Test, time two

Lyon captured his 57th scalp from 12 Tests astatine Adelaide Oval — a grounds that compares impressively to Warne's 56 wickets from 13 matches.

"He's a large athlete," said Australian teammate Michael Neser successful a Fox Cricket interrogation astatine stumps.

"He's been performing for galore years present truthful it's large to spot him getting milestones.

"I'm definite helium has galore much years near successful him."

While the West Indies had failed to instrumentality a wicket successful the nighttime league connected time one, the Australians were unsafe with the pinkish shot nether lights, reducing the tourists to 4-102 by stumps.

Neser, who'd been called into the Australian XI aft Josh Hazlewood suffered a broadside strain, dismissed skipper Kraigg Brathwaite for 19 runs and archetypal driblet Shamarh Brooks for eight.

Lyon past removed Blackwood for three, earlier Australia's fruitful night-time spurt was rounded retired by Cameron Green bowling Devon Thomas for 19.

Australia's terrific enactment with the shot followed the determination by stand-in skipper Steve Smith to state connected 7-511 aft 137 overs.

In a uncommon crushing infinitesimal for the Australians, hometown leader Travis Head fell abbreviated of notching a treble period erstwhile helium was tally retired for 175.

Run-out chaos cruells Head

After Green turned a Roston Chase shot disconnected his hip, the Australian batters got successful a muddle arsenic they took disconnected for a 2nd run.

Head did his champion to instrumentality to his crease erstwhile they gave up connected attempting a 2nd run, but gloveman Joshua Da Silva caught the left-hander retired by the slimmest of margins.

Head was infuriated arsenic helium lumbered from the field, lamenting what Mark Waugh labelled a "complete mix-up" connected the Fox Cricket coverage.

But he'd made 175 from 219 and struck 20 fours connected the way.

Carving retired the highest people of his Test vocation yet was an perfect mode to hide the devastation of Perth, where helium chopped connected for 99.

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