Nathan Lyon climbs another rung up wicket-takers list as he gives Australia hope in Bangladesh

Australia’s off-spinner nudges past England’s Graeme Swann with six-wicket haul to give Australia hope in the first Test against Bangladesh.

When Nathan Lyon passed Hugh Trumble’s mark of 141 for the most number of Test wickets taken by an Australian off-spinner in Jamaica in June 2015, his teammates dubbed him the GOAT. You know how it goes: the Greatest (of his craft) Of All Time. By that measure, at least, the moniker stuck.

It was also the day when questions to him started changing. Instead of focusing on the present, he got quizzed on where he thought he could make it to by the end of it all. We never received much of an answer, Lyon defaulting to his familiar “team-first, stats-don’t-matter” formula.

But when probing him at the time, Lyon did concede to me there were a handful of bowlers that he would like to overtake. He wouldn’t specify who — happy to keep that to himself — yet it stuck with me that such a list existed. On another momentous day for him, it can’t hurt to guess. And I suspect it is timely…

Source: Nathan Lyon climbs another rung up wicket-takers list as he gives Australia hope in Bangladesh – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)