Nathan Lyon credits R Ashwin for eight wicket haul
The star on the Day 1 of the second Test, Nathan Lyon has said that he owes his impressive performance to having studied tapes of R Ashwin's bowling in the build-up to the tournament. Lyon also added that the team's training camp in Dubai played a big role in his impressive performance today.
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.