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BEHIND the major offensive launched by Australia's marauding fast bowlers, a Lyon is lurking for a precious chance for redemption.
The under-rated and improving tweaker Nathan Lyon has the chance to step forward and become the match-winning force his country is craving for him to be in the second Test match.
This time last year Lyon failed to bowl Australia to victory against South Africa who started the final day four wickets down.
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He looks a better bowler now.
Though wicketless from five overs in England's first innings on Friday Lyon had his moments.
In his first over he (rightfully) had a confident lbw decision against Michael Carberry rejected, later that over found the edge of Carberry's bat and twice beat Carberry in the following over with more over-spin, bounce and turn than England's slow men could manage.
A century of cricket tradition, however, has taught Australia to be realistic in its expectations of its off-spinners.
No Australian offie has taken more than the 141 wicket career of Hugh Trumble who played the last of his Tests in 1904, the year when the first World Fair featured an exciting new invention - the airplane.
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In merciless Australian conditions, off-spinners are sandpaperers rather than scud missiles and even the great Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan could bag just 12 wickets at 75 in his five Tests on Australian shores.
The good news for Lyon is ...
- He will get late use of the deck in the final few days when it may be more difficult to bat on.
- His confidence is up after Brisbane and he has plenty of runs to play with. Michael Clarke will have the option to set whatever fields he likes and as many vultures around the bat as he wants.
- He knows the wicket like his own backyard because, as a former Adelaide Oval groundsman, it was his backyard.
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But there will also be many challenges such as ...
- For all the hype over England choosing two spinners, Adelaide has been historically over-rated as a spinner's venue. Even the great Shane Warne had to work hard for the 56 wickets at 30 apiece he took here. In terms of averages per wicket for long-serving bowlers, the top six are all quicks on this ground.
- The wicket is giving some turn but not much - and it's slow, as evidenced by the fact that England's tweakers took 3-308 between them.
The moral of Monty Panesar's failure is not to be too mechanical. Simply bowling the same type of ball over after over will not do the trick.
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- There is an off-spinner in ever county and village team in England. They play them quite well.
England's spinners, particularly their key weapon Graeme Swann, are having a nightmare on tour.
Swann, who took a series clinching 34 wickets at 25 in the recent series in England, has been targeted and taken down to the point where his series returns are now four wickets at 91 apiece.
That followed the 15 wickets at 39 he took here last tour - and that was part of a series when England won 3-1.
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