Nathan Lyon, an off-spinner from Australia, became just the fourth spinner to reach 500 wickets in Test history. On Sunday, December 17, Nathan Lyon took five wickets and amassed 500 wickets in the opening Test of the three-match series.
After Shane Warner, Lyon is only the second spinner and, all things considered, the third Australian bowler to accomplish this amazing accomplishment. Australia’s skipper, Pat Cummins, predicted that Lyon would take 700 wickets from the spinner, maybe even matching Test record holder Shane Warne’s 708 wickets. Cummins believes the guy should play for four more years, at the very least.
The spinner was watching the first Test match finish when Cummins said of Lyon, “It’s still got four or five years to go, at least, with ten games a year.”
“I still think you’ve got 40 or 50 Test matches; that’s four or five years with 10 matches a year,” Cummins stated.
The captain said, “Averaging four or five a game, so a couple of hundred (wickets)—that’s 700.”
The idea of matching the great Shane Warner, or even taking 700 wickets, made Lyon laugh. But Warne was the one who assisted the spinner in pulling off the amazing feat during the 2019 Ashes.
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At the time, Lyon had not yet played in 100 Test matches. “I think [Lyon] has a chance,” Warne stated in an interview with cricket.com.au in 2019.
“If you do the stats—if he plays another 85 or 90 Tests and takes four wickets per game, that’s 360 wickets—so he’ll get me,” Warne had stated.
The great spinner had said at the time, “I’d love to watch someone get my record; that would be fantastic because it would mean they’ve done bloody well for Australia for a long time.”
Warne, who is only second in cricket history behind Muttiah Muralitharan, is currently leading Australia in wicket-taking. With 199 wickets left, the 36-year-old Lyon may yet claim his 700th wicket in Test cricket.
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