Nathan Lyon: India-Australia Test series is equivalent to ‘Ashes’
Australia’s legendary spinner Nathan Lyon believes the Border-Gavaskar series has grown in prestige and beating the legends of the subcontinent is becoming a bigger challenge. He further said, ‘Since 2017 India has surprised the Kangaroos by winning this trophy three times in a row.’
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India beat Australia to dust at his own house. At the same time, once defeated Australia on Indian soil. Australia will tour India in the coming times for the World Test Championship and 34-year-old off-spinner Nathan Lyon is hopeful of a win in India after a successful tour of Pakistan.
Nathan Lyon: India-Australia Test series equal to ‘Ashes’
In an interview to ‘Code Sports’, Nathan Lyon compared the Border Gavaskar Test series to the Ashes, saying, ‘The Ashes mean the most to Australian players. There is something in the series that we respect. Take up the challenge and actually play some kind of cricket so that we can take the series to our name.
Nathan Lyon said “It is a big challenge to win the Test series against India” :-
The off-spinner, who took 427 wickets in Test cricket, said about the tour of India, ‘We know that we are capable of challenging India. This is coming up as a big challenge for us, but we can learn a lot from our performance in Pakistan.
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There is a tough competition between India and Australia :-
When the Australian team visited India for the last time, the team led by Steve Smith had to face a 1-2 defeat. Australia won the last Test series in India in 2004. He further said, ‘It is going to be a tough match of cricket for 15 days and we will be there. We have seen the ups and downs of playing Test cricket in the subcontinent to see how we have to deal with this challenge.