Nathan Lyon credits R Ashwin for eight wicket haul

Lyon managed to write his way into the record books with the best ever figures by a foreign player on Indian soil with 8/50. The Aussie spinner had attributed his performance to the team's preparation tour in Dubai and to watching tapes of Ashwin's bowling.

"I don't know what to say. I watched a lot of Ashwin tapes, but I stuck to my strength of getting bounce. I bowled about 1200 balls in Dubai," Lyon said after stumps on Day 1.

"We worked hard as a bowling group. We discussed how to bowl in India, the toughest place to tour for us."

India came out after Tea and with the scoreboard reading 174/5 and looked set to finish the day with a decent score. However, Lyon claimed the next 5 wickets with India adding just 15 more runs to their score as they finished their first innings for a total of 189.

"That last hour was big for me, I had my pads on so this is the first time I have smiled. I worked a lot with John Davison in the lead-up to the Big Bash League (BBL) games, used to bowl an hour every day. He can take a lot of credit as well. There were some cracks there, and I was trying to hit some," Lyon added.