After returning with the best figures of 8/50 for any visiting bowler in India, Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon, on Saturday, said he drew inspiration by watching videos of his Indian counterpart Ravichandran Ashwin, but stuck to his strength of extracting bounce from the track at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
"I don't know what to say. I watched a lot of Ashwin tapes, but I stuck to my strength of getting bounce. I bowled about 1200 balls in Dubai," Lyon said at the end of the first day's play. "We worked hard as a bowling group. We discussed how to bowl in India, the toughest place to tour for us." "That last hour was big for me, I had my pads on so this is the first time I have smiled. I worked a lot with John Davison in the lead-up to the Big Bash League (BBL) games, used to bowl an hour every day.He can take a lot of credit as well. There were some cracks there, and I was trying to hit some," he added.