One of the most underrated match winner for Australia in recent times, Nathan Lyon, is planning to call all-time leading wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan to get an insight about Sri Lanka before the Sri Lanka tour of Australia this July.
Lyon has previously worked with the bowling great for a brief period of time in 2014, when Murali worked as a consultant bowling coach for Australia and with a testing Sri Lankan tour lined up, renewal of their relationship can deliver huge benefits to the offspinner and Australia.
In a chat with cricket.com.au, Nathan Lyon said, “John Davison and myself were recently talking about a few comments that Murali said about how you should be bowling over on the sub-continent, So I'm looking forward to putting those into play and hopefully it will be good to catch up with him again over there. I’ll see if I can tee up to have a coffee at the hotel or even if we can get him down to a training session would be fantastic.”
The modest off-spinner accepted that he still has to learn a lot and interactions with the all-time great can be extremely benefitting. Though his bowling action differs from that of Murali, he was keen on taking whatever advice the 44-year-old has to offer as he believes they can do wonders for Lyon with the tour of India and Pakistan (home) scheduled in the next 12 months.
Also read: India contact Cricket Australia about possible day-night Test match
“It’s not so much technical, I’ve got a little bit different action to Murali,” said Lyon on the exact kind of advice that he is looking for. “It’s more mindset, and attacking and defending in sub-continental conditions. Just understanding the game, and somebody of his quality and what he was able to do in sub-continent conditions was pretty spectacular so if I can learn off him by just listening to him and talking to him then I’m heading in the right direction.”
“Going technical, I’m more consistent with my bowling. I’m a lot more confident in my skill – back when I made my debut I was quite raw, didn’t really know what was going on, I was just riding the roller coaster. Now I understand the game, I understand my role in the team, so I’m feeling really confident and looking forward to going over there,” Lyon concluded.
Nathan Lyon will definitely be Australia’s go-to man during their upcoming tours in the Indian subcontinent with pitches having a lot of turn and stickiness to offer.
Brand-new app in a brand-new avatar! Download CricRocket for fast cricket scores, rocket flicks, super notifications and much more! 🚀☄️
