2nd Test: Eight-star Lyon floors India on day one
Nathan Lyon shows a round as his teammates extol after his eight-wicket haul. PHOTO: AFP
BANGALORE: Off-spinner Nathan Lyon claimed a career-best transport of 8 wickets to assistance Australia play out India for a insignificant 189 and take opening day honours in a second Test in Bangalore on Saturday.
Lyon, whose total of 8-50 became a best by a visiting bowler on Indian soil, wreaked massacre in a final event of play as India mislaid their final 5 batsmen for 15 runs.
Indian opener Lokesh Rahul top-scored with a dirty 90 yet unsuccessful to find support during Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium – a batsman’s home ground.
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Australia were 40 for no detriment during stumps with openers David Warner (23) and Matt Renshaw (15) during a crease. The visitors route India by 149 runs in a initial innings.
Ajinkya Rahane combined wretchedness to India’s already existent woes after he forsaken Warner on 9 off gait spearhead Ishant Sharma.
Lyon yet simply remained a star of a day, eclipsing former South African pacer Lance Klusner’s uncover of 8-64 during Kolkata in 1996.
The 29-year-old Lyon, who bettered his prior best of 7-94 opposite India in Delhi in 2013, once again kick a hosts during their possess diversion of spin.
The hosts were bowled out for 105 and 107 during their opening detriment in Pune final week, surrender a 1-0 lead to Australia in a four-match series.
But a representation in Bangalore, that has an normal initial innings measure of 451 in a final 7 Tests, seemed to offer no demons like a branch lane in Pune that was rated bad by a compare referee.
Lyon struck shortly after lunch to get India skipper Virat Kohli trapped lbw for 12, as a batsman once again offering no shot to an Australian spinner. He was bowled by left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe in a initial Test.
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Kohli, who had a singular wave in Pune with scores of 0 and 13, faltered after selecting to pad adult Lyon’s off-spin that headed true onto a stumps and was adjudged lbw.
Rahul, who has survived dual forsaken catches on 30 and 61 during his home venue, did grub his approach opposite a Aussie conflict yet got small support from a other end.
Rahul, who available his third Test fifty in his 15th match, finally was out to Lyon. The batsman harmed his shoulder during an nauseous toil opposite Steve O’Keefe in a latter partial of his innings.
Rahul’s 61-run second wicket mount with Cheteshwar Pujara (17) seemed to be a usually bit of insurgency in a Indian batting. Karun Nair also contributed with 26.
Earlier pacemen Starc, who got opener Abhinav Mukund for nought, and Josh Hazlewood bowled probing spells to clap a Indian batting early in a day.
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