Nathan Lyon gets long-awaited 400th wicket

Of the 17 bowlers now in this club, seven are spinners, five of them from the subcontinent. Lyon is in an exclusive club of two with countryman Shane Warne as the only spinners from outside Asia to take 400 Test wickets.

BRISBANE: It took nearly a year longer than Australia hoped but Nathan Lyon ended his agonising wait for a 400th Test victim in style on Saturday during a match-winning four-wicket haul that sent England crashing to a stinging Ashes defeat at the Gabba.

The shaven-headed 34-year-old had been denied the milestone at the same venue in January where Australia lost the series-decider to India.

He then failed to grab a wicket during England's first innings 147 on Day 1 and toiled fruitlessly through a big shift on Day 3, seeing edges drop short and balls whistle past the stumps.

Then, finally, the rush of relief.

Luring Dawid Malan forward in his second over on Saturday, Lyon deceived the England number three with a sharply dipping ball and produced a bat-pad catch for Marnus Labuschagne.

Pandemonium erupted in the terraces while Lyon was mobbed by his team mates as he became only his country's third bowler to join the 400-club after leg spinner Shane Warne (708) and paceman Glenn McGrath (563). Agencies

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