Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit

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By Ian Chadband

May 9, 2024 — 11.41am

Nathan Lyon believes Australia would person won the 2023 Ashes bid 4-0 if helium hadn’t breached down with injury.

But the seasoned spinner says it’s inactive connected his “bucket list” to beryllium backmost for the 2027 Ashes bid to gain the bid triumph that was denied him erstwhile a calf wounded forced him retired of past year’s drawn series.

Nathan Lyon hobbled retired to bat astatine Lord’s contempt a calf wounded that would regularisation him retired for the remainder of the Ashes series.

Lyon, who is inactive looking for his archetypal triumph successful English region cricket with Lancashire, reflected connected his melodramatic Ashes exit successful an interrogation with BBC Sport

“I bash judge if I was present it would person been 4-0 to Australia,” said Lyon, who had helped Australia instrumentality a 2-0 pb portion suffering his series-ending wounded erstwhile fielding successful the 2nd Test astatine Lord’s.

He past had to ticker the remainder of the run successful vexation from the sidelines arsenic England fought backmost to gully 2-2, and would person won the bid if not for the rainfall astatine Old Trafford.

His wounded near the seasoned successful tears and led to 1 of the astir singular comeback cameos erstwhile Lyon defied his wounded to hobble retired to bat successful Australia’s 2nd knock.

He received applause from each quarters astatine the location of cricket, leaving him to yet realise helium wasn’t the Australian bogeyman helium had been built up to beryllium successful England.

“My wife, her parents and a bully household person were each successful the assemblage successful tears,” Lyon said.

“I astir apt didn’t recognize the level of respect that was shown determination and then.

“That’s thing that I’m grateful to beryllium capable to look backmost connected and reflect. I ever thought the bulk of England hates me.”

There’s really thing but full respect for the 36-year-old successful England these days, but Lyon reckons helium would emotion to drawback 1 much ace astatine an Ashes bid triumph successful England aft 2 drawn series.

“One 100 per cent, the bucket-list dreams for maine are to triumph Test bid present and successful India,” helium said.

And Lyon reckons that, meanwhile, he’ll adjacent enactment up with speech of Bazball successful England.

“I don’t caput proceeding astir it. It’s their benignant of cricket. I conscionable consciousness similar we’ve been playing entertaining cricket for a fig of years now, we conscionable don’t request to telephone it a sanction to warrant it,” helium said.

“I’ve seen David Warner people centuries successful a league good and genuinely earlier Bazball was invented.

“It’s up to them to support doing it now. They’ve virtually got to spell astatine six runs an over, different they’re not playing Bazball. If you’re going to speech astir it, you’ve got to bash it.”

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