Australia’s legendary off-spinner has achieved a big achievement by taking 4 wickets during England’s second innings in the first Test of the Ashes series. He made his first victim in the match, catching David Malan at the hands of Marnus Labuschagne, while it was also his 400th wicket. Earlier, Lyon had taken the 399th wicket against India in January, which belonged to Washington Sundar. Interestingly, that match was also played in Brisbane.
Lyon now has 403 wickets in his name. With this, he is not only at number three in the list of highest wicket-takers for Australia, but has also reached number three in the list of 400 Test wickets. Shane Warne (708) and Glenn McGrath (563) are ahead of him. On the other hand, he is the 17th bowler in the world.
4th off-spinner to take the most wickets
Not only this, Lyon is also the fourth off-spinner in the world to take the most Test wickets. Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Ravichandran Ashwin (427) and Harbhajan Singh (417) have taken more wickets than him.
Australia’s win
Talking about the match, captain Joe Root’s record innings and his third-wicket partnership (159) with David Malan also did not avert England’s defeat. Australia won the first Test of the historic Ashes series by 9 wickets. The result of the match came in the second session of the fourth day itself.
Australia had a target of just 20 runs, which they had no problem in achieving. The Australian’s lone wicket fell as Alex Carey, who became Robinson’s victim. The next match of the five-Test series will be played in Adelaide from December 16.
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