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Nathan Michael Lyon (born 20 November 1987) is an Australian international cricketer. He made his Test debut in 2011 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales . Lyon is an off-spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman .
By 2015, Lyon had become Australia's most successful Test offspinner of all time, passing Hugh Trumble's tally of 141 wickets, and he was affectionately nicknamed by his teammates as the GOAT...
- Male
- December 20, 1987
- Australia
A classical off-spinner who loves to flight the ball, Lyon found immediate success and claimed a 5-wicket haul on his debut at Galle thus becoming the 131st player to do so.
Dec 17, 2023 · BBC Sport. This article should have been published in the summer. Had it been, had Nathan Lyon's calf not torn during the second Test at Lord's, the men's Ashes series might have been very...
Dec 17, 2023 · Nathan Lyon went from being a groundsman on $5 an hour to one of the most successful bowlers in the history of Test cricket. Read more But even as his skills and wicket tally grew, Lyon was viewed ...
- Dean Bilton
Jun 28, 2023 · 28 June, 2023. Nathan Lyon achieves rare historic milestone in Test cricket. Lyon's appearance in the Lord's game is his 100th consecutive appearance in Test cricket. This earns him an entrance into an exclusive grouping, one which has only five more players as a part of it.
Lyon has since then been a mainstay in red-ball cricket for Australia, overtaking the legendary Hugh Trumble’s tally of 141 wickets in 2015 to become the nation’s most successful Test off-spinner.
