"You need to look at the way the Indians or the Sri Lankans or the Bangladeshis bowl and learn the way they're thinking and the ways they're trying to get us Australians out. Coxy said, 'Well, he's not even in the state squad, he's just playing at Prospect.' 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. I said, 'Get down here and have a look, I want to pick him.' I realised I wasn't going to make it anywhere as a batsman. I didn't really consider I'd be in the mix to play, but first training session Darren Berry sat me down and said, 'You're not in this squad to make up the numbers, you're in the squad to play. Turning out in senior competition for the rival Young Hotel Dragons, a pre-teen Lyon had more than one sleepless night at the prospect of batting against Schofield. To this day, Darren sends me messages about the little things we spoke about, being brave and going out and bowling attacking lines. Close. A tale told many times is how Lyon earned his spot in the state's T20 squad in 2010-11: by bowling beautifully for the ACT against the South Australia 2nd XI in the "Baby Bash" in Melbourne in front of Darren Berry, SA's T20 coach. His "experience" had been very good over a period of time, but his record on the subcontinent needed to be better. "When I moved, I started batting around six, seven or eight in grade cricket, and my bowling started to take more precedence. Following the losses in Sri Lanka, dealing with the pressure from coach and captain to "do what Herath does", and facing another home summer, Lyon was not in the best frame of mind. Shane Warne has taken aim at Nathan Lyon’s tactics at the Gabba as Australia’s hopes of reclaiming the Border-Gavaskar Trophy quickly evaporated.
The single rotated the strike, but not without an anticipatory smile from Lyon - he was gaining control. However, former Test spinner Kerry O’Keeffe has revealed he told Lyon’s parents he’d never make it as a cricketer. and they said, 'Nathan Lyon, he's playing for Prospect and he's a groundsman'. Having learnt lessons from a whitewash in Sri Lanka, Lyon returned to the subcontinent the following season to take 41 wickets in six Tests
For those situations Lyon can thank Dean Schofield, among others. "Probably because he didn't have a great background of first-class cricket, Nathan was a little bit concerned as to whether he belonged in that environment," Chappell recalls. "I was a pretty tiny fella growing up," he says. I've been watching Test cricket and remembering it for probably 60 years, and there haven't been too many fingerspinners to do better than he's done", "He was a very shy country kid, almost in awe of the state team. "He was a very shy country kid, almost in awe of the state team. He said, 'Who is he?' ", Neither Steven Smith nor Lehmann has avoided public criticism of Lyon following defeats. At tea on the final day, Virat Kohli and M Vijay were entrenched, eight wickets still in hand, and victory 159 runs away. Starting the home Tests with a pair of barren displays against South Africa, Lyon was fast running out of mates. A collision of styles: get Rangana Herath's nagging accuracy without losing your "over the top" offspin strengths, Lyon was told
Given the speed of his initiation, what's most remarkable is how Lyon maintained a consistent place in Australian squads through the next five years, even though he was dropped from the Test team twice in early 2013. "A fair amount of senior men were bowling mediums when I was growing up and there weren't many spinners," Lyon says. "It's a really difficult thing to ask," Davison says. He was also a decent soccer player, known around Young for his dribbling skills left of midfield. John Davison. "Consistency is Nathan's strength. Like Schofield, the doubts of many in Australian cricket seemed an insurmountable obstacle, and Lyon found himself questioning his own prospects of a long career. ', "I believe my stock ball will get anyone out in the world in any conditions, but it's about challenging their defence more regularly from different angles, spots and variations. The Instagram clue hinting that Aussie cricket star Nathan Lyon is about to wed his mistress. "So he's got to improve," Lehmann said, "there's no doubt about that.". So I walked over to him and said, 'Mate, come and have a bowl' and he was all, 'Oh mate, gotta roll the wickets', but I insisted. I suggested tennis. Cricket: Nathan Lyon took the wicket of opener Rohit Sharma with a lovely delivery in his first spell at the Gabba on day two of the fourth test. Davison, who will link up with Lyon again during this summer's Ashes, believes the trials of last summer and subsequent vindication have Lyon feeling more secure than ever. "Trying to bowl that perfect ball all the time, which batters tend to find some rhythm with in the subcontinent, that perfect ball in Australia isn't necessarily the most effective ball over there. With just a handful of first-class matches under his belt, Lyon was rushed into Australia’s Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka in 2011. I think that was a real coming of age for him. And Warne, of course, was twice dismantled on India tours, in 1998 and 2001. I think Nathan had 1 for 90-odd at tea. "That just came down to facing my older brother in the nets and learning the game. Given that Brendan had already chosen legbreaks in games where the brothers would bat and bowl from opposite ends, Lyon reasoned it was best to try spinning it the opposite way. A combination of brotherly one-upmanship and youth first pushed Lyon towards spin. "You can still make sure the guys who are playing have what they need to perform. @danbrettig, Nathan Lyon became only the second non-Asian, after Ian Botham, to take 13 wickets in a Test in Asia, When he cleared his throat to lead "Under the Southern Cross" for the first time last week, Nathan Lyon did so as Australia's undisputed No. AUS Vs IND: Nathan Lyon Praises Mohammed Siraj For 'Calling Out Racist Abuse' The Indian team had lodged an official complaint with the ICC after a … I just tweaked him back to confidence more than anything, not so much technical. By 2010, Lyon's growth was such that Higgs and others thought he was good enough to move to one of the states, and the former ACT coach Ashley Ross offered a pathway as a high-performance manager in South Australia. "Doubly [unfair] when it is a fingerspinner, if you consider that all fingerspinners, not just Australians, have come here and found it hard work. "He needed to be a little bit flatter and a little bit more at the stumps for the blokes who use their feet a lot better," Berry says. "When you're on tour and you don't get the chance to play, you'd still rather be part of that squad than sitting at home or in the stands," Lyon says. Again Lyon offered flight but also got drop, and Pujara was still unable to get to the pitch. It was just what he knew in Australia, and he would always bowl up and over the top, pitch outside off stump, spin in. I said to him, 'How you going?' We didn't change too much with seam position or line, but with trajectory - just mix one up and four down as opposed to probably 12 up and one down [which is] his repertoire in Australia where he gets bounce. Second, he tried to get down the wicket a fourth time but failed again, leaving the ball to bounce and rebound from both pads. We've got to start that education of bowling in different conditions at a really young age.". That's the biggest key in the subcontinent", "He was always looking over his shoulder, because the press and everyone saw him as a stopgap, waiting for the next big match-winning spinner to come along", "I think he outbowled the Indian spinners in India, which is quite an effort. "Something Nathan adapted really well from Sri Lanka to India is when guys were trying to sweep him. "I think he outbowled the Indian spinners in India, which is quite an effort. "I'm able to put more revs on it now, but I had to have the courage to flight the ball up as I wasn't going to necessarily spin the batsman out, so I had to try to do guys in the air.". "Michael was very good in the way he handled Nathan. What makes this story even more complicated is that another source close to the cricketer claims “[Lyon] split from [Waring] more than one year ago.” “Nathan and Mel aren’t together, and have been separated for some time,” the source told Daily Mail. "There's a degree of change, but there's also the fact you can't go away from your stock ball. "When they're defending, I think he looks very dangerous, as well as bowling some cross-seam deliveries that don't drift and go a bit straighter - something he wasn't doing very well in Sri Lanka, but I thought he did extremely well in India and since then in Bangladesh as well.". Davison, watching at home after the touring party elected to use Muttiah Muralitharan and Sridharan Sriram as Asian spin consultants, reasoned that the adaptation required was going to take more time and work than was available in Sri Lanka. This year, in six Tests, Lyon scooped 41 at 19.39, dominating in a way that showed how enormously he had grown in skill and range since Sri Lanka. “Then I called my brother and he was speechless. 1 spin bowler. But as much as the bigger ball had its charms, Lyon dreamed mostly of playing cricket for Australia, and competed most often against his brother Brendan. Chappell says the selectors realised the cycle of spinners tried since Shane Warne's 2007 retirement simply had to end. I always say he was playing for Australia 18 months later, but it was less than 12 months from rolling the wicket at Adelaide Oval! Mallett's 28 wickets at 19.10 over five Tests had long stood as the standard. "Rahul Dravid was out here with the India A guys 18 months ago. Next over, Lyon offered a smidgeon more air to Pujara, who danced down to consecutive deliveries but could not get to the pitch of either, bunting both defensively to midwicket.
One spring afternoon at Drummoyne Oval last year, Berry ventured down from a television commentary stint for a Matador Cup game to chat to Lyon by the boundary. Natural instinct would push Pujara further onto the defensive. Away from the backyard, on more level playing fields, it wasn't always possible to gain as much spin from fledgling fingers. 501 FOX CRICKET. "There was only my brother, who I used to play with in the senior side. It was not a happy conversation.
Of all Lyon's performances, none stick in the memory quite like the final session of the 2014 Adelaide Test against India. "He came in pretty raw but had natural loop with the ball, had good fingers, and was able to turn it. “All I saw were these two ears and a not very well spun off-spinner, and I suggested tennis. Nathan certainly struck us as someone who could be a wicket-taker. Like most juniors he tried just about everything, from bowling seam-up to keeping wicket to batting. He gave him plenty of opportunities to bowl. I think as a bowling group you need to do the same thing," Lyon says. “I just knew Nathan played the game for the right reasons,” said Hussey, who first met Lyon on the eve of the 2010-11 Ashes Test in Adelaide. You haven't lost your talent. Lyon's 12 for 286 in Adelaide in 2014 were his best match figures at the time, and the best by an Australian bowler against India
"He was always looking over his shoulder, because the press and everyone saw him as a stopgap, waiting for the next big match-winning spinner to come along. New to Kayo? Though a formal contract wasn't on the table, Lyon ended up finding a job as a curator on the SACA ground staff, giving him proximity to a state side, if not yet a place in any squad. Australian spin great Nathan Lyon has said that the hosts have more surprise in line for Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara in the remaining three Tests. 29, (pictured) was spotted flashing what appeared to be an engagement ring as she watched him play his 100th game at the Gabba on Saturday. ', "But it's easier said than done. ", For Lyon, the exchange was soon followed by the aforementioned tournament at Toorak Park, in which he confirmed Berry's earlier impressions. “I saw him as an 11-year-old at an Orange NSW coaching clinic,” O’Keeffe said on Saturday. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. AUS Vs IND, Brisbane Test: Washington Sundar Makes A Mockery Of Aussie 'GOAT' Nathan Lyon - WATCH How Certainly, a debut to remember for India all … I said, 'Mate, my advice to you is: go to the people you trust, whether that's your parents or Davo. Of course as Lyon, Berry and Davison were working through these issues, Australia were losing their fourth and fifth Test matches in a row. “I’ve since found out that he was probably too emotional to talk. Watch ‘Nice Garry - The Nathan Lyon Story’ on Fox Cricket after day one of the Gabba Test! Much as Berry in his generation had been reminded of Tim May, Chappell was struck by how much Lyon's tall, slender frame, high action and drift, drop and spin recalled Ashley Mallett. That's what any spinner needs when they first come in at that level, because the margin for error is not that great.". Davison was also a fingerspinner of some skill, who had been used badly (by Victoria) and well (by South Australia) over nearly a decade. After the Galle Test went even faster Sri Lanka's way than Pallekele, Lehmann let all and sundry know that Lyon was not doing the job. Nice Garry is the phrase that got linked to Lyon in December 2016 when wicket-keeper Matthew Wade shouted the same after every ball … Lyon played the latter half of the Shield season for SA, and a final tick of approval to get him into the Australian team came from Greg Chappell, who was selector on duty for an Australia A tour of Zimbabwe in mid-year, and again for the Test series in Sri Lanka, where Lyon would debut, dismiss Kumar Sangakkara with his very first ball, and finish with 5 for 34 in his first innings. "There can be a lot of positives from growing up in the country," he says. We just spoke about how if we got one wicket it would be really hard for the new batters to start. On Today 11:15pm - 11:45pm. He just did the basics well, and I think that's held him in good stead throughout his career.". For the mechanics, Davison and Berry looked at both Herath and R Ashwin, but were careful as to what for. Yesterday at the Gabba, Nathan Lyon became just the 13th Australian to play 100 Test matches for this country. © AFP. Ask Chappell to rate Lyon's achievements in India and Bangladesh this year and he has to think back to Mallett's 1969-70 tour of India for an equivalent by an Australian offspinner. (Photo by Patrick HAMILTON / AFP) / --IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE--Source:AFP. Rather than requiring physical courage, this was a test that needed Lyon to be mentally and technically nimble, aided by a pair of long-time confidants. "For the first time I detected that he was genuinely vulnerable. He batted four and would open the bowling. Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon and his partner Emma McCarthy have bought their first home together. Growing up in the country can be beneficial for a lot of different reasons, but especially looking at a cricket career, you're putting yourself in uncomfortable situations a lot earlier than city kids.". Nathan Lyon is on the verge of 400 Test wickets, and has guided Australia to several victories throughout his stellar 10-year international career. Lyon is an off spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman. The chance to "conquer the game of cricket" is seemingly beyond any player. Playing a role in that process was Mark Higgs, the former ACT and NSW left-arm spinner, who helped Lyon grow into the sort of spinner others began to notice. "We organised a session about how he went about bowling in India and got a similar message about being deadly accurate and hitting the stumps more often than not," says Davison. When Mike Hussey walked into his hotel room after the 2007 New Year’s Test he found a note slipped under his door. They made him earn it. Ashwin's bowling, meanwhile, offered an example of the sort of trajectories Lyon needed, coming from a greater height but bowling at a pace and rhythm that dissuaded batsmen from sweeping or jumping down the wicket. "Nathan Lyon's played a hundred Test matches, that's not easy to do and it means you’re absolutely top of the tree. Guided in Young by his junior cricket coach, Dave Keenan, Lyon was soon contributing to club success and making representative sides. Australia's Nathan Lyon acknowledges applauds from the spectators for this 100th Test match on day one of the fourth cricket Test match between Australia and India at the Gabba in Brisbane on January 15, 2021. "Someone said, 'That bloke on the roller is a pretty good offspinner' and I said, 'Who is he?' What you've lost is your confidence in your talent.'". He made his Test debut in 2011 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Greg Chappell. "To see him play 100 Tests tomorrow is … The mentor: coach Darren Berry discovered Lyon's spin-bowling talent while Lyon was working as a groundsman and playing club cricket
', "So I think I built my resilience and character from playing men at a young age, getting knocked down and getting hit and getting hurt, but being able to find a way to adapt and really push and compete against older guys. Former Australian Test spinner Kerry OâKeeffe has revealed the startling advice he gave Nathan Lyonâs parents in the late 1990s. Pic: Getty "He bowled his heart out and at times we let him down in the field and at times balls didn't quite go to hand. The off spinner with the dream start back in 2011, taking 5/34 against Sri Lanka. Nathan got his nickname GOAT for surpassing Hugh Trumble’s 141 Test wickets in 2015. Cricket: Coming out for his 100th test match for Australia, Nathan Lyon stunned the crowd with some career best strokeplay to notch an impressive, albeit modest, total of 24 at The Gabba. We spoke about straightening him up a little bit and he worked really hard at it. Some kids out in the country don't have all the bells and whistles that a lot of the kids in the city might. As a start, Lyon already had the phrase that would help: "bowl ugly". Among the clubs in competition for the title of best team in Young, a town in the south-west of New South Wales famed for its cherry crops, Schofield was the king of the Blues. They'd get to him with their feet, and he couldn't understand what was going on. Nathan Lyon's split with estranged wife Mel Waring was a much talked about affair considering the public nature of it. "Higgsy was of the same opinion, that he was bowling around himself. He still had to find a way in India, however, and during the Big Bash League he spent considerable time with both Berry and Davison. He probably put a fair bit of that pressure on himself really, but to have some successes and come through the other side has been great for him.". Davison can remember sitting with Lyon during the interval as he coped with the pressure of being the man expected to conjure something from a wearing wicket. Someone like Jon Holland for his first Test [in Sri Lanka last year] - they want him to bowl differently to how he's bowled throughout his career. He was also facing a team of modest means, certainly nothing like the vaunted Indian top six, and few were counting on anything other than an Australia victory. That had come from a few sessions he had with Davison and Shane Watson when vying for inclusion in Australia's 2016 World T20 squad. Called into the attack for the 22nd over of the innings, Lyon started with a mistake - a flat delivery that was too straight, allowing Pujara to work a single through leg. Pujara had faced 15 balls from Lyon, scored four singles, tried four times to go down the wicket and managed to get to the pitch just once before being dismissed. The abbreviation stands for Greatest of All Time. Tim Paine has taken some of the blame for the summer that was meant to celebrate Nathan Lyon turning into the Australian spinner's most frustrating home series. "He's been underestimated for his skill because it's the unsexy offspin. If he looked like he was in a bit of trouble, Michael would get him out of there, and then with a new batsman he'd get him back. That afternoon ended whatever fourth-innings question marks existed about Lyon, but it still took place within the comfort zone of Australian climes - on an oval where he had once rolled the wicket, no less. Aided by an improved batting display, he contributed to wins in Adelaide and Brisbane, before taking a more central role at the MCG. Nathan Hauritz had his Test career effectively ended by a disdainful Sachin Tendulkar in Bangalore in 2010. Darren Berry. Adjust your feet on the crease and bowl a little straighter at the bat so they can't get at you, but still stay outside off stump because you're an offspinner.
", Redbacks won the Big Bash that season, betting big on Berry's "spin to win" philosophy. In a matter of hours, Lyon and the rest had fallen behind in the game. Offspinner Gavin Robertson, who bowled at the other end to Warne on the first of those tours, has spoken about the discombobulation of trying to amend an Australian spinner's method in Asia. “He goes, ‘That’s all right, at least you’ll play one game,’ and he hung up. Nathan Lyon's bowling figures were the worst of any home series in his career. In Michael Clarke, Lyon found a captain who understood his art and showed a willingness to use him judiciously. But things were about to unravel. "I think I was about 11 or 12 at the time. "Our batters always talk about putting away their egos. Nathan Michael Lyon (born 20 November 1987) is an Australian international cricketer. "We probably haven't learned from those past tours.". While a four-hour drive to Sydney seemed prohibitive, Brendan had moved to Canberra, and he encouraged Lyon to try out for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) underage teams. © Getty Images. "We were doing a centre-wicket practice session," Berry says. Less known, though, is that Berry first saw Lyon rolling a pitch at Park 25, part of the rings of green parkland around the Adelaide central business district. All times AEDT (GMT +11). Lyon became the 13th Australian to play 100 Test matches this week, a list which only features two other specialist bowlers – Warne and McGrath. But it really is an amazing story from 'Hey, I want to bowl', from Young to Canberra to Adelaide, rolling the wickets, have a bowl, 'This kid's good', stick him in the Big Bash, nine months later Test cricket and now 269 Test wickets.". He's not Warne, he's Lyon. The country upbringing helped him value character, loyalty and respect, and to develop the traits that saw him take over from Michael Hussey as leader of the team's victory song less than two years into his international career. Much as the Australian team was rehabilitated over the course of the summer, Lyon also regained his groove. If country competition had allowed Lyon to try all disciplines, the push to play more senior stuff brought focus. When Mike Hussey chose Nathan Lyon to be the custodian of Australia’s team song, it had nothing to do with his cricketing ability. It just shows that you don't have to go through the whole pathway to have skill to play.". Being told to bowl more like Herath or other Asian spinners was one thing; actually finding practical ways to do so in the midst of an Australian season while trying to hang on to his place was quite another. "My parents and my grandmother all took turns in driving me over, 90 minutes both ways, for a Saturday or a Sunday game or even a training session midweek," Lyon says. Speaking on Fox Cricket, O’Keeffe confessed he didn’t think much of Lyon’s bowling when he first encountered the off-spinner as a youngster. He'd throw in a quicker ball and make them think twice about playing that shot and get them back to defending. Speaking on Fox Cricket, Lyon recalled his father’s reaction upon discovering his son had been selected for Australia’s Test side to face Sri Lanka in 2011. The path there has been bumpy, Spin the ball hard, mix up the pace, follow your instincts, "I saw the ball come out of an offspinner's fingers with genuine fizz and drift and loop and thought straightaway, 'This is special, this isn't just a flat offie'", "I believe my stock ball will get anyone out in the world in any conditions, but it's about challenging their defence more regularly from different angles, spots and variations. But in the subcontinent he got too high with the loop. I think he grew enormously after that innings in terms of his self-belief. “I said, ‘Dad you won’t believe this’, and he said, ‘What?’ … I said, ‘I’m making my debut’,” Lyon explained. ', "I've never seen him so clouded and confused, and I felt then that he was getting so many messages from different people. The first thing Nathan Lyon did to prepare for his 100th Test was to put a little something on ice … himself. However, you might have to make some adjustments on the crease, some slight variations. "You play against grown men at a lot younger age, you're playing on turf wickets, you're understanding them a lot quicker. Yet the series started to go awry from the moment Kusal Mendis decided he wasn't going to simply melt away in Sri Lanka's second innings in Pallekele, having watched how clueless Australia's batsmen had been against Rangana Herath. The two resumed battle minutes later in the morning's final over. So I walked over to him and said, 'Mate, come and have a bowl' and he was all, 'Oh mate, gotta roll the wickets'"
I've been watching Test cricket and remembering it for probably 60 years, and there haven't been too many fingerspinners to do better than he's done.". He’s developed into one of cricket’s most celebrated athletes, and only sits behind modern greats Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath on Australia’s all-time wicket tally. It was only last summer that Lyon found himself in another scrap, this time for his very future as an Australian Test cricketer. He'd let him bowl against the tail and gave him chances to get wickets. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2021. ", "He was always looking over his shoulder, because the press and everyone saw him as a stopgap, waiting for the next big match-winning spinner to come along"
"I kept building up his confidence and told him the things that I thought made him good, because I detected a really confused mind," Berry says. A picture of rural Australia off to the Big Smoke, he loaded up his ute and dropped in on his parents, then Keenan, before driving south-west. "It was such an emotional Test too, with the passing of Hughesy [Phillip Hughes]. In time, Lyon was learning that it was vital to beat batsmen in the air and, by extension, gain bounce, rather than relying on too much deviation from the pitch. "He wasn't overly impressive, he was very closed off, bowled around himself and undercut the ball a little bit, but always had a good attitude and was keen to learn. The cricket legend appears to be making an honest woman of the leggy blonde who stole his heart. Berry, "It seemed to be a period in which he started to experiment a bit more, doing things a little bit differently in the subcontinent," Chappell says. 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