Battle with superstar babar azam of pakistan the australian offspinner nathan lyon is ready on his test retun from injury.
On his test return the offspinner is closing in on 500 test wickets and this season starts at a profilic venue for him.
Nathan Lyon Hunger
Nathan lyon hunger of playing test cricket for his country never been greater.
As he prepares for his return after ashes ending calf injury earlier this year.
And he is particularly excited about the battle with superstar babar azam whose current ranking is 4 with 882 rating points.
Lyon Preprations
Nathan lyon has put together three sheffield shield outing over the past month after lengthy rehab from first major injury of his career.
Inhis test career he will resume in match number 101 against pakistan as most critical part of australian attack.
All these prepration make sure that nathan lyon is ready for battle with superstar babar azam on his test return.
Happy Hunting Ground For Lyon
Optus perth stadium is the venue for the first test between pakistan and australia and it is also opening test of season.
This stadium is a happy hunting ground for lyon where he has taken 22 wickets in three matches.
But he is expecting a tough challenge from the star batsman of pakistan babar azam who he rates extremely highly.
Babar Azam
Babar who recently resigned from pakistan captiancy.
His averages 44.38 in test cricket against australia and made a brillant 196 in karachi last year to save the match.
Before lyon taken the wicket of babar at a crucial stage of the decider in lahore test.
He was also one of the few postives from last visit to australia in 2019-20 when he made score of 97 and 101.
Lyon about Babar
Lyon said in babar firstly has been a pleasure to play against but he also been a massive challenge.
Nathan lyon told babar is one of the best better in the world in my eyes especially against spin.
He also said he think babar is a class player is against all types of bowling.
They got some superstars in the their side and babar azam is no 1 in the pakistan side in my eyes.
He played reasonably well out here last time so it going to be a big challenge for us for sure.
Lyon Near to Milestone
Following his aborted series lyon will begin the home summer on 496 wicket and given his record in perth.
There is every chance he can become the eighth bowler and third australian to reach five hundred during the match.
The hunger level of his playing the test cricket is probably higher than everyone.
He said if i being honest i am proper excited about it.
Love playing in perth optus stadium it is going to be a challenge against pakistan so its going to be an excited battle.
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Recent Perfomance of Lyon
Lyon took four wickets in his three shield outing for new south wales.
And did not have a massive workload in the last match at scg which was pacer bowler dominated.
But he has been putting in plenty of spells in the nets a three-four stint with mentor john bavison and is very comfortable with build-up.
I had a lot of good people in my corner helping me out making sure i was ticking every box i was doing everything required.
There is no more domestic outing in lyon schedule before flying to perth stadium.
And it will be a slightly unusual one as he suits up for his new bbl side melbroune renegades for a match against sydney sixers.
