IND vs AUS: Nathan Lyon wary of India’s ‘Big 3’ ahead of Border Gavaskar Trophy, Says ‘I’m not sure’

New Delhi: Australian spinner Nathan Lyon is wary of the touring Indian team as he named Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant as the true ‘Big Three’ batters within the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India are unbeaten within the last four Border Gavaskar Trophies. The BGT this year starts in November and will maybe be the primary 5-Test affair between both heavyweights.

The Rohit Sharma-led side will start as favourites taking into account their record over the Australians within the last few years. Having said that, the hosts are likely to be not any pushovers with the likes of Pat Cummins, Marnus Labuschange and Steve Smith to name a couple of of their ranks.

Lyon stated the Indians are going to be a enormous challenge for Australia. “Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Rishabh Pant are greater than likely going to be the three on the contrary big ones. But then you’ve still got Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Jadeja, and who else will come out—every other 5, I’m now no longer sure,” Lyon said.

“Nonetheless it’s a fairly amazing line-up they’ve got, so it’s going to be a enormous challenge. As I said, if we, as a bowling group, are adequate for long periods, confidently, we're in a position to challenge their defence,” he added.

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For India, they're going to be returning to longest cricket after six months since hammering England at home.
While Rohit had a tight series with two hundreds to his credit, both Kohli and Pant were absent from the series. The previous India captain gave the four-match series a leave out for birth of his son. Pant became still improving from injuries sustained within the course of a 2022 car accident in the interim.

It became Jaiswal who impressed essentially the most against England with two successive double hundreds against England and finished as the pinnacle run-getter with 700-plus runs. Gill became 2nd at the back of Jaiswal with 452 runs. Earlier, Lyon described Ravichandran Ashwin as master in craft of off-spin.

“I’ve always said the whole way through my whole career I compete against among the vital best and you glance through the whole Indian line-up, the whole squad, there’s absolute superstars around the globe the place you look and you compete and challenge yourself against them and I do know Ashwin and we debuted around similar times and we’ve competed against each and each other in reasonably a sort of series now and between me and Ashwin I've got nothing but respect for him,” he said.

“I believe like I love watching him bowl, he’s an absolute master within the craft of off-spin bowling and it’s been an absolute privilege to play against him and learn off him. Pretty exciting, it’s obviously a enormous summer for us out here so can’t wait to have the Indian guys out here,” he added.