{"id":31998,"date":"2025-07-30T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31998\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:10:10","slug":"nathan-lyons-advice-to-england-after-handshake-furore-vs-india-ashes-series-bazball-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31998\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Lyon’s advice to England after handshake furore vs India; Ashes series, Bazball comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian spinner Nathan Lyon<\/a> has offered a blunt piece of advice to England after the furore that engulfed the final day of their fourth Test against India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the game certain to end in a draw, Ben Stokes<\/a> offered a handshake to the opposing batters in a bid to call the game off in the final session.<\/p>\n

But with Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar closing in on centuries, the visitors opted to continuing batting until both men had reached their milestone.<\/p>\n

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Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar celebrate in Manchester\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The approach from India, while perfectly legal, angered the England side as a host of players, including captain Stokes, started to sledge and taunt the batters.<\/p>\n

It has led to plenty of debate, with Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott defending the antics, while former England captain Nasser Hussain and ex-Australian keeper Brad Haddin believe the Indians were well within their rights to keep going<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lyon was quizzed about the situation during a Melbourne Renegades sponsor event and offered similar thoughts to former teammate Haddin.<\/p>\n

“Get them out – don’t let them get a hundred,” he said.<\/p>\n

When prompted further, Lyon opted not to light the fuse any further ahead of this year’s Ashes series, which kicks off in Perth in late-November.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lyon weighs in on the England vs India controversy\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old is likely to feature prominently in the Baggy Green across the five-game series against England and is fully aware of what awaits him.<\/p>\n

“I totally expect them to come out and attack me,” Lyon said.<\/p>\n

“I think every touring team says they’re going to come and attack the spinner, so I’m pretty used to that now. Guys trying to attack me brings me into the game.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking forward to that. I’ve got some plans, and I’m already writing down a few things I want to try to put in play and work on.”<\/p>\n

The attacking brand of cricket England has utilised to varying degrees of success in recent years – widely referred to as “Bazball” as a nod to Brendon McCullum – could see Lyon in the firing line when facing the likes of Stokes, Joe Root and Harry Brook.<\/p>\n

\"England<\/p>\n

Harry Brook\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

But this country’s greatest off-spinner knows it won’t be one-way traffic Down Under.<\/p>\n

“I think Bazball has changed a little bit, they’re now honestly talking about ways of how to win games and not being too reckless,” Lyon said.<\/p>\n

“The conditions over here, it’s always been a great competition between bat and ball and that’s the way Australia’s produced wickets like that.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be challenging for their batters and challenging for our batters. That’s the way cricket should be, you want to see competition between bat and ball.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian spinner Nathan Lyon has offered a blunt piece of advice to England after the furore that engulfed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-31998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}