Nathan Lyon has endorsed the value of always playing a spinner in Australian conditions amid a growing sense that England may opt to go without a frontline option at stages during the upcoming Ashes.

While it falls into the category of unsurprising assessments from Lyon, as he himself remarked, it will nevertheless provide one of the interesting dynamics in the build-up to the first Test next month when England ponder the balance of their side having selected allrounder Will Jacks , who last played Test cricket in 2022, as the back-up to offspinner Shoaib Bashir .

"You're asking the spinner if they want to pick a spinner," Lyon said with a smile. "For me, yeah, you're picking a spinner in every side. Variation, it changes the whole tempo of the game. I think spinners can play a ve

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