Nathan Lyon is Australia’s third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. He also tops the list of bowlers with the most wickets in the World Test Championship (WTC) and is second in the list of bowlers with the most wickets in Day-Night Test matches, but despite his outstanding numbers, for the second pink ball match in a row, he failed to find a place in Australia’s playing XI. Like the D/N Test against the West Indies in Kingston in July 2025, Australian team management and selectors decided to go with a four-man pace attack in the second Test of the ongoing Ashes series against England in Brisbane. The Australian team management decision to leave Lyon out of the playing XI came as a shock for the premier spinner, and unlike last time, he is disappointed with the exclusion.

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