Lyon ends painstaking wait for 400th Test wicket

Nathan Lyon has ended a painstaking hold for his 400th Test wicket, yet reaching the magical milestone aboriginal connected Day 4 with the wicket of Dawid Malan.

After a hold which lasted astir the full year, Lyon had Malan caught astatine silly mid-off by Marnus Labuschagne for 82, ending a 162-run concern for the 3rd wicket.

The wicket was met with a raucous reception from Lyon's Australian teammates aft a 326-day hold for the seasoned off-spinner betwixt his 399th and 400th Test wicket.

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Malan's scalp aboriginal was a large root of alleviation for Lyon and Australia, aft it was revealed that a bizarre non-appeal meant they missed a accidental to disregard the Englishman connected Day 3.

Lyon celebrates with Marnus Labuschagne aft dismissing Dawid Malan to assertion his 400th Test wicket (Getty)

The incidental occurred erstwhile Malan was connected 37, erstwhile helium seemingly padded the shot backmost to Lyon.

However, helium aboriginal admitted that helium "might person got distant with one", revealing that the shot had caught his mitt connected the mode up disconnected his bat.

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"I did inquire Tuck (umpire Rod Tucker), but helium gave maine nothing," Lyon told Fox Cricket erstwhile asked astir the incident.

"It was lone Josh Hazlewood astatine mid-on that asked, 'Do you privation to spell upstairs?', but I thought the guys quadrate of the wicket mightiness person seen thing different.

Lyon was made to hold 326 days betwixt his 399th and 400th Test wickets (Getty)

"It is beauteous hard, particularly beforehand connected if it conscionable nicks the glove.

"But that's the mode cricket guys and you person to marque your ain luck sometimes."

Lyon becomes Australia's archetypal off-spinner to scope the 400-wicket mark, and the 3rd Australian down Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath.

He is the 17th subordinate successful Test past to instrumentality 400 wickets and the 4th off-spinner, down Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh.

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