England Ashes hero Jack Leach believes Will Jacks will be relishing this series with no Nathan Lyon for Australia.<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Test Match Special, he said: “I cannot believe I woke up yesterday and saw that Nathan Lyon was left out. I was so shocked.<\/p>\n
“He has such a good record at the Gabba and with the pink ball he is one of the most experienced. I have so much respect for him as a bowler, and he has put us under so much pressure in the past.<\/p>\n
“It feels like maybe reacting to how the first Test went and how quickly the game went and expecting a similar pace of the game.<\/p>\n
“How the wicket is going, it is playing better than what both teams expected. I am sure Australia would love to have Lyon in that second innings.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big role for Will Jacks. For Jacks, it must be nice not to have Lyon play. When I was over there, as a spinner, you have that me against the other spinner. Jacks doesn’t have to worry about that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England Ashes hero Jack Leach believes Will Jacks will be relishing this series with no Nathan Lyon for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22816,120715,112915,98897,428,1721,16326,309,7681,59,15458,101,29607,26317,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-300372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ashes","tag-ashes-live","tag-ashes-score","tag-ashes-test","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-england","tag-england-cricket-team","tag-gb","tag-joe-root","tag-sports","tag-steve-smith","tag-the-ashes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}