An injured Nathan Lyon hobbled to the batting crease and helped Australia add 15 runs to pad their lead against England to 370 runs by tea on the fourth day of the second Ashes Test on Saturday. (More Cricket News)
Lyon was the la🔴st man out for 4 runs, his incredible cameo finishing Australia’s second inni𒆙ngs on 279.
The target for England was 371 in what would be a record successful run ch♏ase at Lord’s.
Lyon suffered a “significant” strain late Thursday and has been o꧒n crutches ever since. The specialist spinner wasn’t expected to play any further part in the Test꧟, and the crowd was stunned when he was seen padded up as Australia’s innings was winding up.
He walked on to the field to an ovation and gutsed out 27 minutes in th♚e middle. He painfully ran a single for Starc and hit a bounဣdary off Stuart Broad.
Lyon helped Mitchell Starc, on 4 at the time, score 11 more runs that Australia ♔believed were vital.
Lasꦬt summer, England chased down 378 against India at Edgbaston.
In an extraordinary middle session, Australia added only 57 runs in 31.🙈1 overs.
After losing Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith and Travis Head in the morꦡning, Australia refused to engage wiꦏth the short-pitched bowling after lunch.
That turned the match into stalemate for a𝓀 long time.
The 1.98-meter (6-foot-6) Cameron Green and Alex Carey h🌺ad no problems ducking, and were content to nudge the꧅ odd ball.
Meanwhile, the English persisted.
Ollie Robinso൲n had five maidens in his first six overs. C🌃aptain Ben Stokes bowled for the first time in the innings and was conceding only two runs an over.
Green finally lost patience. His first attempted pull hit him on the helmet. The second pull was caught in the deep by Ben Duckett off Robins🅠on. Green lasted 67 balls for his 18.
Robinson then got Carey, who defended a short ball that po🌺pped to Joe Root at short leg. Carey went 73 balls for his 21.
Stokes should have had Austr🍸alia captain Pat Cummins on 8 but he overstepped.
However, Cummins 🀅fell for 11 when he hit a riser from Broad straigh๊t to Duckett in the deep.
Stoke꧒s finally got a wickeﷺt when Josh Hazlewood, on 1, gave a simple catch to Root, his third of the innings at short leg. Stokes bowled 12 straight overs from lunch for 1-26.
Robinson took 2-7 from nine straight overs.
Broad finished with 4-65.
