IND VS AUS: Axar soars, Lyon roars
Updated On: 19 February, 2023 08:35 AM IST | New Delhi | R Kaushik
Batting at No. 8, Patel rescues India after being in dire straits at 139-7, but Australia race ahead after Nathan’s fifer on Day Two of Kotla Test
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Axar Patel en route his 74 against Australia at New Delhi on Saturday; (right) Nathan Lyon (centre) celebrates the wicket of KS Bharat with skipper Pat Cummins (right) on Saturday. Pics/Getty Images
Nathan Lyon and Axar Patel were the lead characters in another fascinatingly yo-yoing day of Test cricket, but it was Travis Head who fired the most important shots, in every sense of the term, as Australia moved into the ascendancy at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here.
Lyon, the large-hearted off-spinner who had a game to forget in Nagpur, reiterated his credentials with a stirring spell on Saturday’s second morning of the second Test, reopening recent Indian wounds that revolve around a marked vulnerability against quality spin. In a nine-over burst of four for 21, he ripped the heart out of the Indian batting, accounting for Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul—surely now on borrowed time—as well as 100-Test man Cheteshwar Pujara (0) and Shreyas Iyer.
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