As he took in the achievement of plucking 550 Test wickets and forecast many more, Nathan Lyon spoke glowingly of left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann as “our best bowler”.
As he took in the achievement of plucking 550 Test wickets and forecast many more, Nathan Lyon raved about left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann as “our best bowler”,Nicknamed “Jaddu” after Ravindra Jadeja, Kuhnemann took wickets in his first and last overs of day three. In between times he provided a constant threat to players well-versed in how to handle slow bowling, and put himself in extremely rare territory for Australian left-arm spin.
“Kuhny has been exceptional, and he deserves all the praise that he gets,” Lyon said. “The way he broke his thumb three weeks ago and to show the courage to come out here and bowl, I know it’s hurting him, but he’s there, he’s shown a lot of courage and he’s bowling exceptionally well.“He just keeps telling me he’s a Queenslander and they’re built differently apparently ... even though he plays for Tasmania.
“The fact he’s been able to battle through that injury and turn up and compete with everything, it doesn’t even look like he’s broken his thumb. Then his consistency and repeatability, that’s stepped up from the last time.“I think he still bowled a lot of wicket-taking balls in that series in India, but I think he’ll admit that at times he probably let them off with missing length occasionally, but this time he’s been relentless the whole time.
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