TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019

Timeless Lyon closes

Australia’s show once again

Five-hundred Test wickets is a realistic goal for the timeless spinner (Getty)

ADAM COLLINS

AT EDGBASTON

When Nathan Lyon strode out to the middle of Edgbaston at the day four lunch break, it was to do more
than to look at the surface. Yes, nobody in the professional game knows more about the curation of pitches
than the man who did it for a living before his astonishing rise to the national team. But this was something
different - it was an announcement to those in the opposition dressing that he was ready to rumble
whenever the fourth innings arrived.

He never would have done anything remotely like this during the first stage of his career. Then, from 2011

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