{"id":925151,"date":"2026-10-12T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925151\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:16:11","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-2026-live-cricket-scores-first-test-day-1-highlights-results-latest-updates-nathan-lyons-nod-to-booze-ban-after-incredible-milestone-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925151\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa 2026 LIVE cricket scores: First Test, day 1 highlights, results, latest updates; Nathan Lyon\u2019s nod to booze ban after incredible milestone reached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Lyon is 38 and a veteran of 143 Tests, but the off-spin great believes he is in the condition of his life.<\/p>\n

Key to his comeback from the serious hamstring injury he suffered during last summer\u2019s Ashes series<\/a> is a self-imposed alcohol ban.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Lyon in Durban.\u00a0AP Photo\/Themba Hadebe<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m probably in the best shape of my career,\u201d Lyon said at stumps on day three.<\/p>\n

“The amount of work that I’ve put in, I’ve never had any doubt that I’ll get back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had any alcohol for a fair while now, but I\u2019m just trying to squeeze as much out of the lemon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still feel like there\u2019s a lot of decent cricket ahead of me, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a remarkable moment on day three, the champion quartet that is Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Lyon reached 600 Test wickets, from the 38 matches where all four have played.<\/p>\n

Second on the list is the English quartet of Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes, who took 415 Test wickets across 31 games together.<\/p>\n

Lyon took 2-58 on day three, claiming the prized scalp of captain Temba Bavuma before removing Kyle Verreynne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Lyon is 38 and a veteran of 143 Tests, but the off-spin great believes he is in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-925151","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\/925151","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=925151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}