Cricket-Australia's Lyon eyes Adelaide Oval records at his former workplace


FILE PHOTO: Cricket - Ashes - Second Test - Australia v England - Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia - December 20, 2021 Australia's Nathan Lyon REUTERS/Morgan Sette/File Photo

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Nathan Lyon was once employed as a groundsman at Adelaide Oval but the Australia spinner will this week bid to become the highest wicket-taker at the admired cricket ground in the second test against West Indies starting on Thursday.

With 56 wickets, Lyon needs only one more victim to draw clear of the great Shane Warne at a venue where he toiled in obscurity before being picked for Australia's 2011 tour of Sri Lanka.

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