Lyon spins Aussies into control at SCG

Australia’s ploy to play two spinners on an SCG pitch that is likely to remain the driest surface in metropolitan Sydney over coming days was vindicated when Nathan Lyon added yet another major milestone to an already extensive career record.

Amid the heavy showers that robbed more than a session of playing time from a day that was contested under heavy skies and banks of floodlights, Lyon bowled almost half his team’s overs and shone with similar intensity.

Upon dismissing West Indies opener Kraigg Brathwaite, whose turn it was to play the lone hand that have been a feature of the tourists batting in this lopsided Test series, Lyon became just the fifth Australia spin bowler to claim 100 Test wickets on home soil.