Nathan Lyon
Bowler
Bowls Right Arm Off-Spin
Did you know?
Became the youngest ever Australian finger spinner to reach 100 Test wickets when he achieved the milestone against England at the MCG in 2013 at the age of 26 years and 38 days.
Nathan Lyon
Bowler
Bowls Right Arm Off-Spin
Did you know?
Became the youngest ever Australian finger spinner to reach 100 Test wickets when he achieved the milestone against England at the MCG in 2013 at the age of 26 years and 38 days.
Nathan Lyon
Bowler
Bowls Right Arm Off-Spin
Did you know?
Became the youngest ever Australian finger spinner to reach 100 Test wickets when he achieved the milestone against England at the MCG in 2013 at the age of 26 years and 38 days.
Bowler
Bowls Right Arm Off-Spin
Bio
After a long search for a regular No.1 spinner in the post-Shane Warne era, Australia finally found what they were looking for in 2011 when they opted for a groundsman-cum-off-spinner from country NSW, via Canberra and Adelaide.
Having shown his ability as a net bowler while working as a curator’s assistant at the Adelaide Oval, Lyon made an immediate impact in Twenty20 cricket for South Australia.
Then, with just a handful of first-class matches to his name, Lyon was rushed into Australia’s Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka.
The wiry tweaker showed no sign of nerves on Test debut, dismissing Kumar Sangakkara with his very first ball and finishing with 5-34 to cap a dream start to his international career.
Lyon has been a solid citizen of Australia’s Test XI ever since, highlighted by figures of 7-94 against the might of India in Delhi in 2013.
Lyon became the most successful off-spinner in Australian Test history in 2015 when he removed the West Indies Kraigg Brathwaite on day two of the second Test in Kingston, moving past Hugh Trumble's mark of 141 Test wickets that had stood as the benchmark for more than a century.
He has since passed the 200-wicket barrier and, at 28 years of age, has plenty of time to add to that tally.
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Latest Videos
The challenge of bowling to Finch & Maxi: Lyon
Nathan Lyon discusses the lessons he learns coming up against the likes of Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch in the nets, and in the Big Bash
Lyon reveals how he made Moeen his Ashes bunny
Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon took the wicket of rival tweaker Moeen Ali seven times in the recent Ashes - here he reveals how he did it
'Is there any danger of you blokes nicking one?'
Spinner Nathan Lyon did everything but take Dean Elgar's wicket on day three at the Wanderers, his plight summing up a frustrating day for Australia
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