The Australian spinner, Nathan Lyon, won a rare test Crick feat on Saturday. In the first test against Sri Lanka in Galle, Lyon dismissed Dineh Chandimal twice in the same session again at 12:03 pm. Responding to 654/6 of Australia declared, Sri Lanka was removed by 165 with the upper chandimal score (72) for the hosts. Australia finally won the game for an entrance and 242 races.
Lyon is just the sixth bowling player to fire a batter twice in the same session. Before him, Alec Bedser (Wazir Mohammad, 1954), Keith Boyce (Alan Knott, 1973), Irfan Pathan (Mohammad Rafique, 2006), Graeme Swann (Salman Butt, 2010) and Prabath Jayasuriya (Lorcan Tucker, 2023) had achieved The feat too.
Lyon also became the highest abroad on the floor of Sri Lanka, surpassing Ravichandran Ashwin from India, which took 38 WICKETS in the island nation.
Top 5 higher of Wickt in Sri Lanka (abroad)
Nathan Lyon (Australia) – 42*
Ravichandran Ashwin (India) – 38
SAEED AJMAL (Pakistan) – 38
Shane Warne (Australia) – 37
Yasir Shah (Pakistan) – 33
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka suffered her greatest defeat in the tests while she lost the first Galle test. After the 4th, Sri Lanka was retired by 247. On the other hand, for Australia, it was his fourth largest test victory.
The strongest defeat of Sri Lanka before this loss occurred in Nagpur in 2017, when they were beaten by an entrance and 239 races by India. Australia declared 654-6 late on the second day after the race race of Usman Khawaja of the Khawaja opening.
Australia now leads 1-0 in the two-game series. Galle will also organize the second and last game of the series next week before a two -game ODI series in Colombo.
(With AFP tickets)
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