WTC Final: Nathan Lyon sounds caution ahead of South Africa clash

Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon believes facing South Africa successful the World Test Championship last astatine Lord's connected June 11 volition contiguous unsocial challenges contempt Australia's acquisition successful winning ICC trophies, citing overseas conditions and Duke balls arsenic cardinal factors.

Australia enters the lucifer arsenic defending champions with players who person won aggregate ICC tournaments including the 2015 and 2023 ODI World Cups and 2021 T20 World Cup.The Australian team's acquisition successful high-pressure situations gives them an advantage, but Lyon acknowledges this whitethorn not substance connected lucifer day.

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"Having the acquisition of the guys who person won 3 (50-over) World Cups and T20 World Cups and evidently the World Test Championship last a mates of years ago, that acquisition and that unit successful those higher games, it's going to be, it's connected our side, isn't it, but it doesn't mean thing erstwhile you travel to the game," Lyon said.

The English conditions disagree importantly from Australian pitches, offering plaything to bowlers alternatively than bounce, portion the Duke balls behave otherwise from the Kookaburra balls utilized successful Australia.

"It's going to beryllium antithetic situation and with overseas conditions and the Dukes ball. It's going to beryllium 2 champion bowling attacks going astatine each different which is different breathtaking happening truthful it's going to beryllium a bully situation for each batters," Lyon explained.

Lyon has been intimately monitoring South African players' performances, peculiarly successful their caller circuit against Zimbabwe."I'm a cricket nuffie, truthful I've watched a just magnitude of cricket and adjacent tuned into their crippled astatine the infinitesimal against Zimbabwe," Lyon said. "They've got immoderate people players arsenic I said with the likes of Aiden Markram, Rickelton astatine the apical of the bid there, they're people players, there's nary constituent successful hiding down that information either."Quiz: Who's that IPL player?The spinner specifically mentioned his acquisition facing David Bedingham successful County cricket."I played against Bedingham past twelvemonth present successful County cricket and he's a peculiar player, truthful astatine the extremity of the time it's going to beryllium guys who bash the basics…and bask the unit moments," helium stated.Lyon confirmed his betterment from a hep wounded sustained during the location Test bid against India."I had a small interruption aft Sri Lanka to effort and get my hep close and present that's each bully to go," Lyon said.

"I honestly haven't stopped grooming since the extremity of Sri Lanka and bowling omniscient I've been astir apt going for a bully 5 to six weeks now."He expressed restitution with his existent signifier and preparation."My numbers and wherever I'm astatine workload and each that worldly is wherever we privation it and accomplishment omniscient and however the shot is coming retired of my manus is precisely the mode I privation astatine the moment," Lyon concluded.