{"id":24275,"date":"2021-01-19T01:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24275"},"modified":"2021-01-19T03:56:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T03:56:30","slug":"warne-roasts-lyon-over-huge-tactical-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24275","title":{"rendered":"Warne roasts Lyon over huge tactical blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian spin-bowling legend Shane Warne<\/a> has roasted Nathan Lyon over the fields set by the off-spinner on day five of the fourth Test against India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lyon has operated on the final morning without a close-in fielder on the off-side when bowling to Cheteshwar Pujuara<\/a>, bowling a line that's too straight for Warne's liking.<\/p>\n

As Lyon searched for the elusive breakthrough, Warne couldn't hide his frustration.<\/p>\n

"I just cannot believe it, after everything with the last series and this series and how he has bowled to Pujara with a bat-pad on the off-side, he looks a completely different player," Warne said on Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

"What sort of conversations have they had with no bat-pad to start with this morning? I'm in shock.<\/p>\n

"I've been disappointed with some of the tactics from the Australians this series, but this doesn't make any sense whatsoever as well."<\/p>\n

Warne noted that Lyon, who has bowled more balls to Pujara in Test cricket than any other bowler, should have learned from the past.<\/p>\n

"I don't have an answer, I just cannot explain why he hasn't got one," he said.<\/p>\n

"Here's a guy who has played 100 Tests, he has bowled enough balls to Pujara, he knows how he has got him out on the off-side with a bat-pad, he knows how it changes his game, so why on earth would you not have one?"<\/p>\n

Warne also revealed he'd spoken to Lyon about employing a close catcher on the off-side to Pujara, noting that the tactic worked earlier in the series.<\/p>\n

"I can't come up with a reason, because there isn't one for not having a bat-pad on the off-side," he said.<\/p>\n

\"Nathan<\/p>\n

"I'd like to think I know a little bit about spin bowling, and I was quite successful at it. I've watched Nathan Lyon for a long period of time, and chatted to Lyon about the bat-pad on the off-side to Pujara.<\/p>\n

"He says he feels he can't bowl as wide. Then he put him in in Adelaide and he knocked him over, and he (Pujara) looked a completely different player, and he (Lyon) said, 'Yep, you're right'<\/p>\n

"So why does he not have one today? That's what I don't understand. He knows it works. He's admitted it works."<\/p>\n

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