Nathan Lyon hungry to win Test series against India

The 36-year-old Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon is desperate to win the upcoming home Test series against India.

India will tour Australia for a five-match Test series. Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 will start on November 22, 2024. 

Excluding a one-off India vs Australia Test match at the ICC World Test Championship 2023 final, Australia last time won a Test series against India in the 2014/15 season, where the hosts Australia won the four-match Test series by 2-0. 

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India have won all the last four Border-Gavaskar Trophies, each by a 2-1 margin. Apart from winning twice at home, India also won their last two Test series in Australia. 

It's been ten years of unfinished business: Nathan Lyon

So, Nathan Lyon is desperate to win the upcoming home Test series against India. In a recent interview, the off-spinner opened up about his hunger to win the forthcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy. 

Lyon said, according to ESPNcricinfo, "It's been ten years of unfinished business, it's been a long time, and I know we're extremely hungry to turn things around especially here at home. Don't get me wrong, India is an absolute superstar side and extremely challenging but I'm extremely hungry to turn things around and make sure we get that trophy back.”

To become a great Australian cricket team, Lyon feels that they need to beat the Indian team. 

He added, "Feel like we are a different team to a couple of years ago, we are on a journey of becoming a great Australian cricket team. We're definitely not there but we are along that journey and have been playing some decent cricket."

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Jaiswal will be a massive challenge for all us bowlers: Nathan Lyon

Early this year, India won the five-match home Test series by 4-1, and the Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal stunned with his incredible batting performance. The left-handed opening batter won the Player of the Series award after scoring 712 runs in nine innings with an average of 89.00 and a strike rate of 79.91. He hit two double centuries and three more half-centuries during that Test series.

Lyon believes that Jaiswal will be a tough challenge for the Australian bowlers. 

Lyon quoted, "I haven't come across him [Jaiswal] yet, but that will be a massive challenge for all us bowlers. The way he played against England, I watched that quite closely and thought that was quite amazing. I had some really good chats with Tom Hartley about different ways he went about it to different guys which I found quite interesting."

Lyon also opened up about the importance of talking about the game. 

He added, "I love talking about cricket, so if I can talk to someone who has played Test cricket I might be able to pick up something I'm not aware of. There's so much knowledge floating around this game that we can always tap into."

Apart from the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Lyon is also looking at the next Ashes series, which Australia will host in the 2025/26 summer.