“I’m nervous because I care. I care about everyone in that changing room, I care about the result and playing cricket and representing Australia,' says man of the moment, Nathan Lyon. cricket ashes
When Shane Warne fooled Sachin Tendulkar into padding up for an lbw at the MCG on his final Test match day of 1999, it felt briefly as though he would gobble up the five wickets he needed to pass Dennis Lillee’s Australian record that same afternoon.
There was even a “ghost wicket” on day three of the Gabba Ashes Test, when Dawid Malan plopped back a return catch off pad and glove that Lyon, clearly a little unsure of where that next wicket was coming from, barely appealed for. “It hasn’t really hit me to be honest,” Lyon said. “I’ll get my phone and call my family and friends and that will probably hit a little closer to home. But it’s something I’m very proud of, there’s no doubt about that. It’s been some hard toil to get it, but very rewarding.Getty Images
For much of the previous day, Lyon had been played comfortably off the back foot by Malan and Joe Root, neither of whom looked in any way influenced by the presence of a close-in fielder. But as England ate ever more into Australia’s lead,Within a few balls, Malan advanced, failed to get to the pitch of a looping, dropping delivery, and squeezed an inside edge on to pad and straight to the helmeted Labuschagne.
“It’s a magnificent milestone … A magnificent achievement,” Ponting said on Seven. “I played in his first Test, I faced him in the nets before his first game. I heaped praise on to the captain and coach at the time about: ‘You’ve got to play this guy’.
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