Nathan Michael Lyon is an Australian international cricketer. He made his Test debut in 2011 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Lyon holds the record for the most Test wickets taken by an Australian off-spin bowler, passing Hugh Trumble’s 141 wickets in 2015. Lyon has signed to play in the inaugural season of the Big Bash League for the Adelaide Strikers.
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Nathan Michael Lyon is an Australian international cricketer. He made his Test debut in 2011 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Lyon holds the record for the most Test wickets taken by an Australian off-spin bowler, passing Hugh Trumble’s 141 wickets in 2015. In January 2021, Lyon played in his 100th Test match during Australia’s series against India. As of June 2020, Lyon is the 16th-ranked Test bowler and 20th- ranked Test all-rounder in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. Lyon has signed to play in the inaugural season of the Big Bash League for the Adelaide Strikers. In May 2017 it was announced that Worcestershire had signed Lyon as a replacement for compatriot John Hastings, who was competing in the ICC Champions Trophy. Lyon was involved in a bizarre incident, burning a piece of toast in the dressing room and causing the smoke alarm to go off, which brought the fire services to the ground and stopped play for 30 minutes. On 5 November 2019, Lyon signed for Hampshire as their overseas player for the 2020 season in Championship cricket in England. However, this deal was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2011, Lyon became just the seventh number 11 batsman to have the top score in the team’s innings, when he scored 14 in Australia’s second-innings of the first Test against South Africa.
He finished with 534 in his first innings, becoming the 131st player to take five wickets on debut in a Test match. Lyon went on to play for South Australia in the Sheffield Shield and the Australian domestic limited-overs competition. In the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash Lyon was the leading wicket-taker where the Redbacks won the competition. He was selected in the Australian Test squad for the tour to Sri Lanka in 2011. Lyon took his first wicket off his first ball in Test cricket on 1 September 2011, his victim was Kumar Sangakkara. With this feat he became the third Australian since Arthur Coningham, in 1894. In 2013, Lyon returned to represent his home state New South South Wales and Sydney Sixers. He played for the Prospect Cricket Club in the South Australian Grade Cricket League while continuing playing for the Comets in the Futures League. He took two wickets for Australia against the Sri Lanka Board XI in the three-day warm-up match at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium.
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