Former Australia skipper Allan Border has called for caller Test skipper Pat Cummins to not unit off-spinner Nathan Lyon into tackling specified agelong spells with the ball.
The seasoned tweaker, who volition resume play connected time 4 of the archetypal Ashes Test connected 399 Test wickets, was handed a immense workload arsenic England fought backmost done skipper Joe Root and archetypal driblet Dawid Malan yesterday.
England volition resume their 2nd innings this greeting astatine 2-220, trailing Australia by 58 runs. Root was connected 86 overnight and Malan 80.
England began their 2nd excavation conscionable earlier luncheon connected time 3 and, by stumps, Lyon had completed 24 overs, with pacemen Cummins and Mitchell Starc bowling 14 overs each and an injured Josh Hazlewood managing conscionable 8 overs.
"Nathan Lyon is struggling ... for his champion form," Border said connected Fox Cricket's broadcast this morning.
"I thought helium bowled immoderate perfectly cracking deliveries yesterday.
"But if there's immoderate disapproval from maine personally it's that they support Nathan Lyon going for excessively long. He bowls tons of agelong spells and sometimes I deliberation adjacent the spinner gets bushed successful conditions the mode they there. So it's astir apt champion to chop and alteration things a small spot much arsenic acold arsenic the spinner conscionable bowling from the 1 extremity each afternoon."
Border did admit that Australia's bowling portion was hindered by the lack of Hazlewood, who's since been cleared to vessel connected time four.
"(Lyon's large workload) mightiness person been due to the fact that Josh Hazlewood's carrying a small niggle," Border said.
"It's going to beryllium absorbing to spot what happens this greeting with that 2nd caller ball."
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